Cincinnati

See also a town of a few hundreds of inhabitants: Cincinnati (Iowa).

Cincinnati is a Ville the United States located at the Southern of the Ohio, on Right Bank of the Fleuve of even name. The city is an important center Industrie L. The black Communauté represents there more than one third of the Population.

With the census of 2000, this one counted 332.285 inhabitants. The metropolitan zone which extends in Ohio and the neighboring states from the Indiana and the Kentucky, account 2,1 million inhabitants according to the estimates of 2004.

History

Cincinnati was founded in 1788 per John Cleves Symmes and the Colonel Robert Patterson. The land-surveyor John Filson (the author of the Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon (see) Daniel Boone) called it " Losantiville". Into 1790 Arthur Clear St, the governor of the Territory of the North-West, changed the name of the colony for Cincinnati, in the honor of the Company of Cincinnati, from which he was the president. This one honoured George Washington, which was regarded as a modern Cincinnatus (it is about a Roman general which saved its city, then withdrew capacity). Until today, if one considers Cincinnati in particular, and the Ohio in general, one sees that there live a very great number of descendants of soldiers of the Guerre of Independence of the United States of America to which one had granted grounds in this state.

In 1802 Cincinnati was constituted as a village and in 1819 it became a city. The introduction of navigation to the vapor into the river Ohio in 1811 and the completion of the Channel Miami and Erie made of it a Mushroom town which grown until accommodating 115.000 citizens in 1850. The nickname Porkopolis date of 1835, when Cincinnati was the first production center of pigs of the country, and that herds of pigs crossed the city. Called the " Queen of Ouest" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (although this nickname was first of all used in a local newspaper in 1819), Cincinnati was an important stop of the clandestine Railroad ( Underground Railroad ), which helped of many slaves to escape since the States from the South. Cincinnati is also known like the " City of the Seven Collines" , which is probably a romantic reference to Rome and Cincinnatus, although there is no agreement in connection with the specific hills to which this name refers.

Cincinnati is the site many historical innovations. It was the first city of the the United States to establish a Jewish hospital in 1850. The first municipal department of fireman of America was established there in 1853. Established in 1867, the team of baseball Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional team paid players of this sport in 1869. Cincinnati was the first to build and have an important railway line in 1880. In 1902, the first Skyscraper out of reinforced concrete, the Ingalls Building, was built in the city.

As a city of the era pionnière, it was compared with Pittsburgh and Nashville; but also with Louisville, Saint Louis and the New-Orleans as a river city. Lastly, through its industry and immigration, one compared it with Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit.

Thanks to its river and with its important system of park, many people commented on the beauty of Cincinnati, considered by Winston Churchill as “the most beautiful city of the interior of the grounds of America”.

The Company of Cincinnati

The Company of Cincinnati was founded at the end of May 1783 following the war for the Independence of the United States by officers who were going to separate after the victory. The organization wanted to be apolitical and the constitution written by the general Henry Knox only aimed at encouraging fraternity and patriotism and its name evoked the famous Romain Cincinnatus. George Washington was the president besides. But, in a country which wanted to be levelling and democratic, transfer a reconstitution of the nobility much there since adhesion was limited to the male descent by order of primogeniture. Since a little more than one century the organization, a long time languid, took again strength and it counts today 3.500 members divided into 13 American branches (as much as the States in the beginning) and a French branch, itself creates five months after its date of formation and intended to recognize the active contribution of the general officers, colonels, admirals and captains French which had fought for independence.

Geography

Cincinnati are located at 39°8 ′ 10 ″ NR, 84°30 ′ 11 ″ O (39.136160, -84.503088).

According to the office of the census, the city has a surface of 206,1 km ² including 4,1 km ² made up of water levels (2,01% of entire surface).
L' urban surface Cincinnati - Middletown is 25th larger the United States with 2.009.632 inhabitants.

Climate

The climate is moderated and seasonal worker. The summers are hot and wet, with cold nights. The average annual temperature is of 12°C, with average snowfalls of 81,3 cm and precipitations of 1.040 Misters the wettest seasons are spring and the summer, although the rain is constant throughout the year. During the winter, particularly in January and in February, several days of snow can be waited, which allows the winter sports, although the chuttes of snow are less important than in the remainder of the state. The winter temperatures go between -3 to 6°C, those of summer of 19 to 30°C. The highest recorded temperature was of 39,4°C the 17-08- 1988; lowest of -30°C the 19-01- 1994 was.

Districts

See also: List of the districts of Cincinnati

Single geography of Cincinnati made blottir its districts in small basins on the sides of the hills which overhang them. Thanks to that, the majority of the districts developed very strong different identities.

Population

In 2006, there were 89 homicides in Cincinnati.

Culture

Sport

NFL - Cincinnati Bengals
MLB - Cincinnati Reds
USL-2 - Cincinnati Kings
AMH - Stingers of Cincinnati (old frankness between 1975 and 1979)
the city accommodates each year in August a tournament of important Tennis, the Masters Series of Cincinnati, préparatif tournament with the US Open.

Museums

American Classical Music Hall off Famed and Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education
Cincinnati Fire Museum
John Hauck House
Heritage Village Museum
Cincinnati Museum Center Final At Union
Cincinnati Observatory Center
The Contemporary Arts Center
Drake Planetarium
Greater Cincinnati Science Education Center
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
National Signs off the Times Museum
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Newport Aquarium (in Newport, Kentucky)
The Taft Museum off Art

Music

The Symphony orchestra of Cincinnati is one of the American orchestras whose fame does not cease growing, grace in particular to its young talented chief Paavo Järvi.

Twinnings

Economy

Third city of the State, distribution center of coal, wood, iron and salt, Cincinnati has agribusiness industries, metallurgical and chemical, soap factories and printing works, manufacturing planies of engines of plane and spare parts of vehicles. Cincinnati is an industrial hearth of first importance: it counts 300 companies and 180.000 paid works in the secondary industry (Source: Le Figaro , June 13rd, 2005).

Transport

Cincinnati has an airport (code AITA: CVG), the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport . Code AITA of this airport corresponds to the town of Covington, in Kentucky, also served.

Archbishop's palace

Archdiocese of Cincinnati
Cathedral Saint-Pierre-in-chains of Cincinnati

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