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28 unusual facts about Hamilton County


Anderson Ferry

The ferry connects Anderson Ferry Road (a major arterial street on the Ohio side which traverses the City of Cincinnati; Delhi Township; and Green Township from south to north) with a short private road, which in turn connects with Kentucky Route 8 (the middle section) just east of its junction with Kentucky Route 20 near Constance, Kentucky.

Benjamin Franklin Mathews

Benjamin Franklin Mathews was born April 16, 1819 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee.

Bill Seitz

After graduating from the University of Cincinnati, Seitz worked as a member of the Cincinnati Board of Education, and as a Green Township Trustee.

Cincinnati Cheetahs

During their 1994 season, the Cheetahs' home field was at St. Xavier High School in Springfield Township, Hamilton County.

Clovernook

The farm was once part of a 1 million acre (4,000 km²) tract of Springfield Township that was purchased in 1787 by John Cleves Symmes, a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress and a pioneer in the Northwest Territory.

Elias Boudinot

He owned large tracts in Ohio including most of Green Township in what is now the western suburbs of Cincinnati, where there is a street bearing his surname.

Hamilton County, Indiana

Even US senator Evan Bayh, in spite of his landslide victories in 1998 and 2004, had failed to carry Hamilton County in either election.

The land containing Hamilton County was brought into the possession of the United States by the Treaty of St. Mary's in 1818.

Hamilton County, New York

(The easternmost county with a population density less than Hamilton County is Kenedy County in southern Texas.)

It is named after Alexander Hamilton, the only member of the New York State delegation who signed the United States Constitution in 1787 and later the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

It also voted for John Faso over Eliot Spitzer for Governor in 2006, and for John Spencer 55.5%-42.1% over incumbent Hillary Clinton for the U.S. Senate in 2006.

Isaac Jack Martin

He was an assistant prosecutor in Hamilton County, Ohio, from 1933 to 1940, returning to private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1943.

Jacquelyn K. O'Brien

Her district consisted of a portion of southeastern Hamilton County, Ohio.

John Cranley

Cranley was born in Green Township, Ohio, and grew up in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Price Hill.

John W. Comfort

He immediately reenlisted while stationed in Hamilton County, Tennessee in December 1863, weeks after the Battle of Wauhatchie, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant at the end of the month.

Kabaka Oba

Oba was interred on Monday, April 24, 2006, in a plot at the Crown Hill Memorial Park in Colerain Township next to Roger Owensby, Jr., a black man who died while in Cincinnati police custody in 2000, in accordance with the wishes of Owensby's father.

Kenwood Towne Centre

The site is not located inside a physical city limits, but lies within Hamilton County's Sycamore Township, in an area commonly known as Kenwood.

Kenwood Towne Place

Bank of America filed a foreclosure lawsuit in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court against Bear Creek Capital and the developers of Kenwood Towne Place in May 2009.

Kope Formation

The type section of the Wesselman Tongue of the Kope formation is an east-facing embankment on an unnamed creek that is followed by Wesselman Road in Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio.

Laketa Cole

She has served as a precinct executive, and spent two years as the Vice President of the Hamilton County Young Democrats.

Lou Blessing

As an attorney, Blessing worked from the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court before being elected as a Colerain Township Trustee.

Moe Burtschy

Moe Burtschy died of heart failure in Delhi Township, Ohio at the age of 82.

Old Gothic Barns

The Old Gothic Barns were a pair of historic agricultural buildings near the city of Cincinnati in Green Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

Oliver Spencer

When he arrived in Columbia, Ohio, the governor of the territory Arthur St. Clair made him the colonel of the local militia and probate judge for Hamilton County.

Sedam Springhouse

The Sedam Springhouse is located on Delhi Pike near the intersection with Mayhew Avenue, in Delhi Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, just west of Cincinnati.

Thomas Mears Eddy

He was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, educated at Greensborough, Indiana, and from 1842 to 1853, was a Methodist circuit preacher in that State, becoming Agent of the American Bible Society the latter years, and Presiding Elder of the Indianapolis district until 1856, when he was appointed editor of the "The Northwestern Christian Advocate," in Chicago, retiring from that position in 1868.

Waycross Community Media

WCM programming can be seen on Time Warner Cable in the Cincinnati suburbs of Forest Park, Greenhills, Springfield Township and Colerain Township

Whitewater Shaker Settlement

The Whitewater Shaker Settlement (also known as White Water Shaker Village) is a former Shaker settlement near New Haven in Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.


Cochran Farm

The web site of the Ohio Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio Historical Society says "William and Rebecca Cochran came from Adams County, Pennsylvania in 1814. They settled in Hamilton County where they lived until 1825. They then moved to Butler County near Millville. William Cochran owned much property in the area and in 1821 purchased the Millville Mill which had been built by Joel Williams in 1805".

Mark P. Painter

Mark Philip Painter (April 6, 1947), served from 1995–2009 as a judge of the Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals in Hamilton County (Cincinnati), after 13 years on the Hamilton County Municipal Court.