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"Queen city of the west", to which the Trollopes came in 1828. "In a single quarter of a century Cincinnati had risen from an inconsiderable village, to an opulent city of 19 or 20,000 inhabitants." [possessing] a medical college, a hospital, a theater, ... nine newspapers, two of which were dailies. (Source: Cincinnati Chronicle, quoted in Introduction to Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans, p.xix).
It was also characterized as "Porkopolis", being the major point in the area to which hogs were brought, to be slaughtered.
In 1829, it had an African-American population of 2,000 or more. That year, threats were made to enforce the prohibitive but unenforced "Black Laws". These threats, soon followed by violent riots against the blacks, led about half the population to leave Cincinnati over the next year. This sequence of events led to the establishment of the colony of Wilberforce, in Canada.
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Town where Ulysses S. Grant spent his childhood from the age of one. About 35 miles southeast of Cincinnati.
Home of the Western Reserve College, a center of radical abolitionism. Theodore Weld visited there in October 1832, giving a series of lectures, which helpted to convert Elizur Wright and Beriah Green to immediate abolitionism.
For a while, (around 1831?) the home of the Mormon colony as they pushed further and further west. A picture of the Kirtland Mormon Temple can be seen in Gaustad, A Doc. History of Religion in America, p 353.
Small town a few miles north of the Little Miami River, betewwn Dayton and Cincinnati (about 25 miles from each).
Town where John McLean, Postmaster General and Supreme Court Justice, first achieved success as a lawyer.
33 miles southeast of Cleveland; founded by New Englanders "combined the fad of communal living with an educational ideal".
Its famous educational institute had a primary and a secondary school and a "college department" when, in 1834, it absorbed most of the Lane rebels to form a theological seminary.
source: Thomas, Weld
An Ohio River town about 20 miles upriver (southeast) from Cincinnati. Birthplace, in 1822, of Ulysses S. Grant, whose family moved to Georgetown, OH a year later.
Could be said to bound Ohio on 1-1/2 sides -- forming the whole southern border, and going halfway up the eastern border. Before 1826, it formed almost the exclusive highway from the northeast, and upper south, to the western states. Many "one-way" rafts were built at Wheeling, VA (now WV), an important terminus of the National Road, to float families, or groups of individuals, west to Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.