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Edward WHITE, the founder of the place, was killed at Galena, Illinois, while acting as an arbitrator, about 1840. His decision was adverse to one Dr. STODDARD, who drew a pistol and shot him dead.

Lewis BONNELL was killed by the fall of a tree in 1831.

Two boys, named SWIFT and ROBINSON, skating on the canal, were drowned in 1831, below Second street.

An unknown man, taking shelter in a hollow tree was killed by lightning in 1845. In 1846 the stage was overturned in Mill creek, and one child was drowned.

Charles HUGHES, while swimming in the creek, west of Third street, was drowned in 1847.

In 1853 a stranger stopped over night at Mr. FOWLER's, upper Main street, and was found sitting on the front stove plate in the morning, dead.

James ---, also an unknown man, drowned his sister and horse accidently at the ford above the village in 1854.

A fast woman and fast horse were drowned by a careless driver at the Hamilton Street bridge, in 1854.

Mr. HUBER was drowned in the creek near by, in 1855.

In the same year two men, a fireman and section hand, were killed by the cars on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &. Dayton railroad, one at the depot the other below.

Mr. CHUMLEY, an old man tired of life, put himself on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton track, and was killed, in 1858.

A brakeman on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad was killed at the bridge above the depot, in 1861.

About 1853-58 four men, all unknown, were drowned, on as many different Sundays, in the same place, where the woman and horse lost their lives in 1854.

William D. LUDLOW, the pioneer, dropped dead near Jackson and Third streets in 1862. Mr. LUDLOW was at this time the second husband of Abigail LUDLOW, whose first husband, Lewis BONNELL, was killed by a falling tree in 1831.

A driver of a mule team, from the camp in upper Carthage, was killed by being run over by a wagon in front of Southwell's blacksmith shop in 1863.

In the same year Mrs. Susan RAINSDALE fell dead near Third and Lebanon streets.

In 1863, when Mrs. DUGAN (mother of Susan RAMSDALE, just mentioned) saw the young man killed in front of Southwell's shop, she said: "Let my death be just as sudden." A few days afterwards she was thrown from her wagon and instantly killed.

An unknown man, hit with a stone, was killed near the corner of Third and Lebanon streets. It was done by a man now in the penitentiary, whose name is not remembered.

In 1864, Mrs. Mary Eliza EWING, but recently married then, was thrown from her carriage at the corner of Fifth and Jackson streets, and instantly killed.

Oscar MUSSER, engaged in the camp here in 1864, was kicked by a horse and died immediately after.

Mrs. Mary DILL, widow of Richard DILL, an early settler, was found dead in her bed in 1863. Aged ninety vears.

Miles RIGGS, while engaged in pleasant conversation, died instantly, in 1868.

Caleb THAYER was found dead in his own cistern in 1868, a supposed suicide.

Hiram SLOOP was tired of life and hanged himself in his own room, at the corner of Jackson and Anthony streets, in 1869.

Mrs. Ann VANKIRK was found in the canal, near Centre street, in 1870; also a supposed suicide.

Mrs. Philip FOLTZ, standing at her front gate with her baby in her arms, engaged in conversation with a neighbor, fell instantly dead, in 1873.

A boy named Norton was drowned in Mill creek, near Centre street, in 1876.

Rachel CARRICO dropped dead at the depot, on West Second street, in 1876.

A child, parents unknown, was found dead on the tow-path side of the Miami aqueduct, in 1878.

John NUTTS was found dead in a sandbank, at the corner of Fifth street and the canal, in 1879.

Adolphus DILL was killed by the cars on the Dayton Short Line railroad, in 1879.

James FITZPATRICK, a school boy, was drowned near Sixth street and the canal, in an ice-pond, in 1879.

Benjamin TEGEDER, in trying to recover his brother from under the ice, was himself drowned, near the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton bridge, on Sunday, Decernber 12, 1880.

The foregoing narrative is exclusive of the casualties within or connected with the numerous public institutions around Carthage.

The soldiers from Carthage who volunteered in the late war were:

ALCOM, Fielding, in the cavalry, a prisoner four months.

BONNELL, Warren, cavalry.

BOWEN, Putnam, cavalry.

CALDER, Jerry, infantry, wounded at Rich Mountain.

CASTNER, Peter, gunboat service.

CASTNER, Jonathan, gunboat service.

CURTIS, James, cavalry.

CURTIS, Morton, gunboat service.

DOOLEY, William, infantry, wounded at Perryville, Kentucky.

DILLANO, Samuel, infantry, taken prisoner at Stone River.

DORMAN, John, wounded at Vicksburgh on the gunboat Carondelet.

FLINN, Jesse, infantry, wounded.

FLINN, Edward, infantry, killed at Atlanta.

FERRIS, Henry, cavalry.

FOWLER, William, cavalry, prisoner in Salisbury.

FOLZ, Philip, cavalry, wounded in action.

HAUCK, Harry, infantry, died in hospital.

KELLERMAN, Henry, gunboat service.

KROEGER, Fred., gunboat service.

MUSSER, Jerry, cavalry.

MUSSER, Albert, cavalry.

MORRIS, Clarence, artillery,

McLEAN, Jesse, infantry, wounded at Mission Ridge.

McLEAN, Edwin, infantry and musician.

McCLELLIN, James, infantry.

PHILLIPS, George, infantry.

RIGGS, Philip D., infantry and cavalry.

ROBINSON, Frank, infantry, starved to death at Salisbury.

RIETNER, William, gunboat service.

SOUTHWALL, George, cavalry.

SMEDLEY, Daniel, surgeon.

SNYDER, John, infantry, killed at Fort Blakely.

SCHMUCKER, Jacob, infantry.

WILSON, William, cavalry.

Since the platting of Carthage in 1815 there have been several additions: By Samuel CALDWELL, in 1826; James N. CALDWELL, in 1848; LEE, WILSON & BULLOCK, in 1850; CALDWELL & PADDACK, in 1850; SAMUEL GREENBAUM, in 1858; Theophilus FRENCH, in 1868; Jacob SCHMUCKER, in 1869; EGGERS & SPRUNG, in 1875; and by T. COLLINS, the same year.

The village was incorporated September 22, 1868. Its first mayor was Jonathan R. BONNELL; the second, Richard A. MORTON, who served from 1869 to 1874, inclusive; third, Richard PHILLIPS; fourth, Smith STIMMELL, the present incumbent.

Since its incorporation the streets have been properly widened and graded; expensive gas works were put up, and the streets are well lighted. There are four churches, with graded public schools, both German and English, and a parochial school attached to St. Borromeo's Catholic church. The hotels are well kept. There are four public halls, of which Coke hall, on North Main street, is accounted the finest in Hamilton county, outside of Cincinnati.

The Miami canal passes Carthage on the east, and the Short Line railroad on the same side; the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad on the west side, both roads giving sixty trains a day to and from Cincinnati. Mill creek is the extreme northern and western boundary of the village. About fifty of the residents do business in Cincinnati. It had a population of one hundred and forty-eight in 1830, and two thousand four hundred and nineteen half a century afterwards, by the census of 1880.

In the State Gazetteer of 1841 Carthage is noticed as then containing two hundred and eighty-three inhabi- tants, with fifty-five dwellings, ten mechanics' shops, three stores, two taverns, two groceries, one meeting- house, and one school-house. The Gazetteer adds: "This town is situated on a sandy soil, which gives it a pleasing appearance. Its location being in the centre of the county makes it a noted place for large gatherings. The annual fair of the Hamilton County Agricultural society is held there. It has two mails per day."

The old CALDWELL graveyard, near where GRIFFIN's station stood, in western Carthage, is now nearly plowed over, and not a single stone remains to tell the name of the dead beneath. The last to disappear was that of Richard Dill, who put up the first brick house in Cincinnati, his assistant on that work being James DUGAN, who later was in HULL's surrender, and died a few years since in Carthage. The gravel of James CALDWELL is now no longer to be distinguished, even by the writer, who was at the burial (in 1843), and who, in, boyhood, used to "Play horse," riding the old sword-scabbard which WAYNE presented to CALDWELL with a major's commission when out in the campaign of 1793-4. The old WHITE graveyard lies on the brow of a low hill; a half mile east of CALDWELL's and close to where the station stood. When old Providence WHITE last visited this last resting place of the pioneers, thirty years ago, he walked mourn- fully around, read over the inscriptions on the fallen stones, and to some curious listeners who knew nothing of the tender emotions in his bosom, recounted the events of his earlier days. By his request James Dill replaced the stones as they were in the long ago. But modern school boys, with little knowledge of pioneer history, and less respect for the graves of the once brave dead who lie in them, have overthrown the walls and broken and scattered the stones so that but few are left to mark the place. When the writer visited this old cemetery in 1878, he counted sixty sunken graves, but there were many more before the Miami canal, cutting through in 1826, obliterated all trace of them. On one mutilated stone appears the following:

Mary, wife of Amos White.

On another this:

1834, in the 50th year of his age.

Consider, friend, as you pass by,

As you are now, so once was 1,

As I am now, soon you shall be,

Prepare for death and follow me.

This is remembered as the stone of Mr. Jehial N. WOODWORTH, a schoolmaster.
 

Amos WHITE, died September 25, 1819, age seventy years.

Edward WHITE, the first, born, April, 1714; died, September, 1802.

Edward WHITE, the second, born, November, 1746; died, October, 1798.

On a large tablet:
Josinah, consort of Jacob WHITE, born November 6, 1760; died March 26, 1834, age seventy-three years four months and twenty days; has left the church militant to join the church triumphant.

On a tablet:
Alcy, wife of Jacob WHITE, born May 30, 1775; died September 20, 1835, aged sixty years three months and twenty-one days; has gone to join the assembly and church of the first born.

A few rods southeast from this graveyard, near the north side of the county farm, in a well recently covered over, Moses PRYOR was killed by the Indians in 1792. just northeast of the graveyard a short distance, in the southwest corner of the grounds of William R. MORRIS, esq., was the grave of the Indian chief killed by Captain White in the attack on the station in 1793. The place of the chief' burial was pointed out by old Providence WHITE on one of his later visits there; and in 1847, while improving the grounds, the workmen accidently exhumed the chief's skeleton. A full account of the battle at WHITE's station will be found in the history of Springfield township.
 

AVONDALE.

This is a large tract (seven hundred and fifty-five acres) adjoining the city north of Walnut Hills, platted in part as a suburban village in 1854, to which considerable annexations have since been made. Its area is not far from one thousand acres, comprising the whole of section nine, the northwest part of section eight, between Woodburn and Corryville, in the city, and a part of section fifteen, in the south of which, just outside the city, are situated the zoological gardens. The section nine was conveyed by Judge SYMMES in 1795 to Samuel ROBINSON. The next year ROBINSON conveyed three hun- 

One of the first suburban residences on this tract was the brick mansion on the Lebanon pike, built in 1835 by Luke KEBDALL, who, two years before, had bought ten acres from Mr. CORRY at one hundred dollars an acre. This was then the "outpost of Cincinnati," as Colonel MAXWELL styled it in his Suburbs of Cincinnati, to which we are indebted for most of these facts. In 1836 his partner, David B. BASSETTAKE, built a brick residence out here; and the number increased gradually year by year, until one of the most notable suburban villages in the world has been formed, with several churches, a fine public hall, recently erected, the German Protestant cemetery, and a large public school-building on the west side of Main avenue, south of Rockdale avenue, built of brick, seventy by thirty feet, with a hall and six rooms, whose schools are superintended by Mr. A. B. JOHNSON, one of the veteran teachers of the Miami country, who has held the post of principal here for near a quarter of a century.

The Grace Protestant Episcopal church is situated upon a two-acre lot on Main avenue, north of Glenwood avenue. It was first occupied February 27, 1870, when a sermon was preached by the Rev. William A. SNIVLEY, of Christ church, in the city. The church and grounds cost twenty-five thousand dollars. The Grace Methodist Episcopal church was formerly called Mears chapel. It is on the south side of Forest avenue, west of Washington. In 1868 the building was handsomely repaired and improved, at a cost of two thousand two hundred dollars.

The Presbyterian church of Avondale, originally Old School, was occupied about the first of Februarv 1868, under the pastorate of the Rev. Joseph GAMBLE. It is situated on the north side of Rockdale avenue, a little way from Main.

A beautiful new town hall, consummating an enterprise which had been long under discussion, was dedicated December 31, 1880. It occupies a fine site on the south side of Rockdale avenue, just west of the main avenue. It is modified Queen Anne in style, of blue limestone trimmed with Ohio freestone. The outside dimensions are sixty by one hundred and ten feet. Entering from Rockdale avenue, the main hall divides the offices of the mayor and clerk. Beyond these offices are the cloak room on the right and the principal staircase to the left, below which is the porte cochere; large doors at the south end of the main hall open to the assembly room forty-five by sixty, with stage and four dressing-rooms. Over the offices and entrance hall is the council chamber, extending across the entire front part of the building. This room with its panelled ceilings, polished wooden mantels and elegant chandeliers, is one of the features of the building. Accommodations for the police and fire departments are provided in the basement. The necessary height of the ceiling for the smokestack of the engine is afforded by the elevation of the stage floor. The large stage in the hall is, or is to be, provided with a complete set of scenery for private theatricals and similar entertainments. The commodious hall, with its polished floor, and lighted with five superb chandeliers, is devoted. to a variety of uses, not the least of them being the elegant assemblies for which Avondale society is noted. Mayor STRICKLAND made the principal address at the dedication, in which he indulged in the following pleasant reminiscences:
As a community, we have certainly made wonderful and rapid strides in growth and prosperity. From a few houses grouped together upon either of the turnpikes, with here and there a farm-house just in sight, surrounded with blossoming fields and well-stocked orchards, we have grown to be a community of three thousand inhabitants, embracing among them all classes, from the merchant and capitalist, to the skilled artist and daily workman.

In the earlier and more primitive times the journey to and from the city was not the luxury such as we have known it. Hunt street -- then termed the bottom -- from the old corporation line to the foot of the hill, was, during the winter season, an almost endless sea of mud, and woe betide the unskilled and luckless driver, whose sight was not keen, for no friendly gas illumined the trackless path to enable him to safely pilot his way. No friendly policeman guarded the dark passes of the hillside, and home was often reached after adventures that tried the bravest and most resolute among them. Our patriarchs now were then the hardy pioneers of our civilization; and although the necessity for block- houses had passed away, great care was necessary to protect themselves, their families and their property from the depredations of tramps and footpads.

As our Queen City grew with all ever-increasing prosperity the flow of population to the hill-tops and surrounding country set in, and our delightful suburb has received its fair share of acquisitions. The little square school-house gave away to a more pretentious and imposing building located on a part of this lot, and it, too, has subsequently grown in size with the increasing demand of the times, until the old town hall, located there, was, of necessity, called into requisition, and its walls now re-echo the merry charter of our children. The old town is a bright memory of the past. In it have gathered the young and old of our village for many years, but the history of that time is too crowded with events to even warrant me in an attempted reference to them. 

No scandals have ever been uttered in our midst attempting to impeach in the slightest degree the integrity of any of our public officers. No improvement so great, no expenditure of money so large-involving at times thousands of dollars -- has ever tempted the abuse of a public trust. No scheme of merit but what has received and will receive respectful consideration, and the question has never been asked, " are the emoluments?" A notable instance, and one of which we should all feel proud, is the building of this hall. Almost without a jar it has risen in its fair proportions, and so close have been the calculations of architect and contractor, and so painstaking the committee in charge, that the completion has been effected with extras aggregating less than two hundred dollars. It reflects great credit upon them all, and it is my duty, as well as a great pleasure, to refer to it here.

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We have improved and beautified in many directions. Old avenues have been remodelled and improved; new ones have been constructed and opened; good and substantial sidewalks abound, and every thoroughfare is as well lighted with gas as those of any of our surrounding neighbors. We have established a police force, have an organized fire-department, and have constituted a board of health, composed of gentlemen who are thoroughly alive to the sanitary interests of our village. It will thus be seen that we have achieved much as a municipality. We have, step by step, advanced, keeping always in view the comfort, convenience and happiness of all. We have conspired, aided largely by nature, in making this an attractive and desirable place in which to dwell, and yet we have not accomplished all that we should.

Avondale was regularly incorporated as a municipality July 28, 1864. Some of its mayors have been -- A. R. DUTTON, 1866-7; Daniel COLLIER, 1868; Robert A. JOHNSTON, 1869-74; John DIXON, D. W. STRICKLAND. It had a population of two thousand, five hundred and fifty-two by the tenth census.
 

BOND HILL

is a little over a mile east of north of Avondale, with a station on the Marietta & Cincinnati railroad. It was founded by the Cooperative Land and Building association, No. I, of Hamilton county -- a company formed in 1870, but not fully organized until February 3, 1871. It purchased thirty acres, on the Reading or Lebanon turnpike, at five hundred dollars per acre, situated at what was known as Colonel Bond's hill, from which the suburb takes its title. It is about two-fifths of a mile from the station, on a slightly inclined plat, offering many eligible building sites. This was subdivided into spacious lots for suburban residence. The by-laws of the association required dwellings to be erected in the centre front of each lot, and fifteen front from the sidewalk, and also prohibited the sale of intoxicants in the village. A fine public hall was early erected. The suburb has had a good growth, with the usual institutions of such a place, including the Bond Hill circle, a dramatic reading society, which gave weekly readings in the private houses during the cool season. The village had eight hundred and ninety-six inhabitants in June, 1880.

The St. Aloysius's German Catholic orphan asylum is situated near Bond Hill, on the Reading road, north of the Marietta & Cincinnati railway. It owns and occupies here a noble tract of fifty acres, has a three-story brick building, with basement and extensive two-story wings on each side -- the lower story in each used for school rooms, the upper for dormitories. The property was valued at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in 1874, and has accommodations for about three hundred orphans. This asylum is supported by the regular contributions of more than two thousand subscribers, at three dollars and twenty-five cents a year, and three celebrations or picnics per year -- on Washington's Birthday, the Fourth of July, and on anniversary day, the third Sunday in September -- from which about seven thousand dollars are annually realized. Orphan boys may be kept here until twenty-one years old; girls until they are eighteen. The Sisters of Notre Dame, under the direction of a reverend father, conduct the asylum, with a board of trustees to manage the finances. It is regarded as a most beneficent charity. Bond Hill had three hundred and ninety-two inhabitants by the tenth census.
 

CLIFTON.

In 1843 Mr. Flamer BALL, a prominent attorney in Cincinnati, deemed it best for the health of his family to remove from the city and take a small farm in what is now Clifton. The region was then without schools or churches, police, or anything else that savored of city or village life; and there were not even good roads. After Mr. Ball had been there a few years, he thought the time had come to reap the advantages of a village government, and in 1849 he presented a petition to the legislature, accompanied by the draft of a law for incorporation of the village, to his neighbors and other property owners in the proposed municipality. Among those who signed the petition were the distinguished or well known names of Philip McILVAINE, Justice McLEAN, Chief justice CHASE, Hon. William JOHNSTON, R. B. BOWLER, Robert BUCHANAN, William RESOR, Winthrop B. SMITH, W. G. W. GAND, and B. R. WHITEMAN. In March of the next year, accordingly, a beginning was made of Clifton (for so the village was called), as a separate government. The writer of Cincinnati Past and Present adds:

Mr. BALL consented to serve as its mayor, and for nearly twenty years held that office; and as mayor and ex officio president of its council he drafted and enforced all the ordinances of the corporation. He originated the law for impounding stray animals -- a law which he enforced through much opposition, but lived to see it meet the general approbation, and a similar law prevail throughout the State. Under his ad- ministration a church, a good school, and good roads, together with good order, were secured, and Clifton became the most beautiful suburban village to be found in the United States. It is hardly too much to say that he was the founder of Clifton.

Mr. BALL was mayor from 1850 to 1869, when Mr. Robert HOSEA took the office and held it some years, when he was succeeded by James BERGHER who was in the mayor's chair from 1872 to 1874, inclusive.

Clifton comprises one thousand, two hundred and eight acres. It took its name from the CLIFTON farm, which was within its present territory. It is situated just north of those parts of the city known as CLIFTON heights 

Numerous handsome cottages with attractive grounds are scattered throughout the town. . . . . Calvary Episcopal church is the only edifice for public worship. It is a neatly designed stone building, having a memorial tower. The outside is covered with iron, and presents a beautiful picture. The interior is well finished and handsomely frescoed, and decorated with scripture mottoes."

The last census gave Clifton one thousand and forty-six inhabitants.
 

COLLEGE HILL

This is another fine suburb of five hundred and sixty-three acres, situated near the northwest corner of Mill Creek township, about eight miles from fountain square, Cincinnati. It is conveniently reached from the city by College Hill narrow-guage railway, or by the old Hamilton turnpike, commonly called the College Hill pike. The site of College Hill, which is among the highest localities in the county, was included in a large tract bought from Judge SYMMES in October, 1796, by Nehemiah TUNIS, who had the title conveyed to Jabez C. TUNIS. From him William CARY bought, four hundred and ninety-one and one-half acres, in section thirty, upon which the village is located, for three thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Freeman G., son of William CARY, in 1833 founded, in a pleasant situation upon this tract, CARY's academy, which was chartered in 1846 as Farmer's college, and the latter institution gave the name to the place. The name is further justified by the location here, upon the same hill, of the Ohio Female college.

About 1855 there was a large emigration to College Hill of Cincinnati business men seeking attractive suburban residences. Among them were Messrs. Charles and Charles E. CIST, George C. and Norris S. KNIGHT, the Rev. Clement E. BABB, J. C. C. HOLENSHADE, A. D. E. TWEED, D. B. PIERSON, G. Y. ROOTS, and others. After a time the Female college building was opened to summer boarders, and that gave a further impetus to the place. It was formally incorporated as a village September 9, 1857, and again July 21, 1866, when a general system of local improvements was instituted, which has aided to make one of the most inviting suburbs about Cincinnati. Among its mayors have been: Edward De SERISY, 1867; Norris S. KNIGHT, 1868; Henry M. CIST, 1869; Cyrus S. BATES, 1870; L. T. WORTHINGTON, 1880-1.

The population of College Hill when the census was taken, in June, 1880, was one thousand one hundred and nine.

Farmer's college was chartered with all the powers usually granted to collegiate institutions, and secured an endowment, in buildings, grounds, money, etc., of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. It was highly prosperous for many years, and then fell off somewhat in popularity and strength. Embarrassing debts were incurred, and an effort to endow an agricultural professorship failed. Special attention is given, however, to the applications of natural science to agriculture and the arts, and to botany and vegetable physiology. The college faculty has included a principal and an actuary of the farm department, the former of whom was also professor of science and practical agriculture, and the latter teacher of landscape gardening. A botanical garden was also among the projects of the founders. At the time of pecuniary embarrassment, relief was afforded in an act of the legislature enabling the college to sell the college farm, which realized enough to pay the debt and leave a surplus of fifty-two thousand dollars, which is an irreducible fund, the interest only being available for the- current expenses of the school. The Polytechnic ball was dedicated in 1856, with an address by Professor F. G. CARY. A valuable agricultural and horticultural magazine, called the Cincinnatus, was conducted about this time by the faculty of the college and published at the Hill. Five volumes of it appeared.

The original CARY's academy was at the junction of the old Hamilton road with Colerain avenue, within the village limits.

The female college was chartered in 1848. The honored justice John McLEAN was president of the first board of trustees, and S. F. CARY was secretary. The cornerstone of the main edifice was laid September 9, 1848, and the institution went into operation in the fall of 1849. Its first building was destroyed by fire, but another was soon erected . In 1851 the college received a new charter, giving it the usual powers of colleges for young men. In 1865 it came into possession of Messrs. Samuel F. CARY, Franklin Y. VAIL and Joseph BROWN. Their interests were severally bought up by the trustees, and the school flourished until April 23, 1868, when its buildings were the second time burned. Recitations went on to the close of the school year, however, the citizens generously opening their homes to the students, and in a few months a finer building than ever went up on the old site. It is of brick, one hundred and fifty-five by fifty feet, with freestone quoins and trimmings, a 

By the will of the late John T. CRAWFORD, of Cincinnati, his farm of eighteen and one-half acres, just north of College Hill, in Springfield township, is to be devoted to the purposes of a home for the aged and destitute colored people. The first Presbyterian church here was organized in 1853, by thirty-three members of the Mount Pleasant society. The Rev. E. H. BISHOP, D. D., then of Farmers' college, was one of the prime movers in the new departure. The new church worshipped for several years in the College chapel, but got a building erected about 1855, which it occupies to this day.

The Grace Episcopal society was organized in 1866, and likewise worshipped for a time in the College chapel. In the early part of the next year, however, a beautiful brick church was built on the site of the old CARY academy, costing sixteen thousand dollars. .

The building for the colored church stands on Cedar avenue. 'There is also an excellent school in the village, occupying a brick structure on Hamilton avenue, north of the Presbyterian church.

About 1857 a very prosperous Farmers' lyceum was maintained in and about College Hill, meeting once a month from house to house, and commanding an interested attendance from a wide extent of country. The members and visitors brought their wives and children, and baskets of provision, and made a day of it at each meeting. The Harvest Home was also a flourishing institution of those days, and somewhat peripatetic, its gatherings not being confined to College Hill, nor even to Mill Creek township, as the meeting of September 29, 1856, assembled at Miamitown, Whitewater township.
 

ELMWOOD.

A small subdivision laid out in 1875, along the Dayton Short Line railroad, near the lunatic asylum and just southwest of Carthage, by Messrs. Frank L. WHETSTONE and L. C. HOPKINS. It had one hundred and thirty-six people by the tenth census.
 

LUDLOW GROVE.

This place occupies the site of the grounds and grave- yard of the heroic old pioneer of 1793-4, John LUDLOW, esq., near the junction of the Dayton Short Line and Marietta & Cincinnati railroads, about nine miles from the Plum Street depot. The original LUDLOW homestead is still standing. In 1854 the tract was mostly covered with trees, where the city people delighted to keep holiday. With the completion of the Marietta & Cincinnati, however, the prospects of this region for a suburban village began to brighten, and in 1869, the site was subdivided by Benjamin BARTON, H. S. BREWSTER, and Charles FOLZ. It is now included in the corporation of St. Bernard, for which it furnishes the sole postal facilities, under its old name.
 

MOUNT AIRY

is an incorporated village of large size in point of territory, immediately west and southwest of College Hill and covering a little more than two square miles (one thousand three hundred and twenty-six acres) in Mill Creek and Green townships, of which seven hundred and forty- seven acres are in the former. Its certificate of incorporation as a village was filed November 20, 1865. Some of its mayors were: Anthony Shouter, 1897-8; - Oliver BROWN, 1869; R. CREIGHTON, 1870; B. H. KROEGER, 1874. The St. James Catholic church, under care of Father F. SCHONFELT, with its parochial school of two departments and one hundred and fifty pupils, and its confraternities of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary, are located at Mount Airy. The village, considering its large tract, is still rather sparsely settled. It had one hundred and sixty-two inhabitants in 1880.
 

ROLLING RIDGE

is a small settlement on the Winton turnpike, about half a mile north of Winton Place, and a mile from the north line of the township.
 

ST. BERNARD.

This extensive suburb ties south of the Marietta & Cincinnati railroad, and immediately north of Avondale, partly on the Carthage turnpike. It was laid out in 1850 by Joseph KLEINE and J. B. SCHRODER, and has been so extended as to include the suburb of Ludlow Grove. It was incorporated as a village March 8, 1878. It is largely inhabited by the Germans, who have here the St. Clements Catholic church and parochial school (with about one hundred and ten pupils), and the attached Archconfraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, all under the pastoral care of the Rev. Father Gregory FAUGMAN. The building for this church was erected in 1873. It has six hundred sittings, and a spite one hundred and seventy feet high. The St. Bernard Catholic cemetery is in the southwest part of the corporation, near the canal. The extensive starch factory of Mr. Andrew ERKENBECKER, of Cincinnati, are also in this place. The village has a well organized fire department, with full apparatus for extinguishing fires. In June, 1880, its population was one thousand and seventy-three.
 

SPRING GROVE CEMETERY,

with the County infirmary, Longview lunatic asylum, and Zoological gardens, all either county or city institutions, are wholly in Mill Creek township. They receive full notice in their appropriate places elsewhere in this work.
 

WINTON PLACE.

This delightful suburb adjoins the Spring Grove cemetery on the east, due north of Clifton. It was formerly called Spring Grove, and gave the name to the great cemetery and to Spring Grove avenue, which runs far into the city. It was platted in 1865 by Sylvester HAM. 

Mill Creek township had ten thousand five hundred and fifty-two inhabitants in 1880.