College Hill, Cincinnati

History

In 1813-14, William Cary, having migrated from New Hampshire to Cincinnati in 1802, purchased 491 acre north of Cincinnati along what is now Hamilton Avenue (U.S. Route 127). Cary built a log cabin and moved his family to the area, then part of Mill Creek Township. In 1833, Cary's son Freeman G. Cary established Pleasant Hill Academy for boys on part of his land. The academy became an agricultural school called Farmer's College (for which the area was renamed) in 1846. That school became Belmont College in 1885, and then formed the core of the Ohio Military Institute in 1890. A separate school, the Ohio Female College, was founded in 1852 by Reverend John Covert and operated until 1873 when it was sold to build the Cincinnati Sanitarium, the first private US psychiatric facility not on the East Coast.

The development of the area was expedited by the introduction of a railroad line in 1851 and horsecar service in the 1860s. College Hill was incorporated as a village in 1866, then annexed to the city of Cincinnati in stages in 1911, 1915 and 1923.

Several buildings in the neighborhood are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including Laurel Court, College Hill Town Hall and the Old College Hill Post Office.

Demographics

| graph-pos = bottom | 1950|10492 | 1960|15198 | 1965|19632 | 1970|21590 | 1980|17327 | 1990|15785 | 2000|15269 | 2010|14133 | 2020|16039 As of the census of 2020, there were 16,039 people living in the neighborhood. There were 7,624 housing units. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 32.6% White, 60.3% Black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.8% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 1.1% from some other race, and 5.1% from two or more races. 2.8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 7,263 households, out of which 54.1% were families. 42.6% of all households were made up of individuals.

22.8% of the neighborhood's population were under the age of 18, 59.2% were 18 to 64, and 18.0% were 65 years of age or older. 44.7% of the population were male and 55.3% were female.

According to the U.S. Census American Community Survey, for the period 2016-2020 the estimated median annual income for a household in the neighborhood was $48,284. About 12.0% of family households were living below the poverty line. About 28.3% had a bachelor's degree or higher.

Notable people

• John E. Bruce, former mayor
• Samuel Fenton Cary, representative and temperance movement leader
• Lewis M. Crosley, industrialist and businessman
• Powel Crosley Jr., inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur
• Cornelia Laws St. John, poet

Gallery

Image:1934 FarmersCollege Cincinnati byTyler LC HABS OHIO 31.jpg|Farmer's College, built 1848 (photo 1934) Image:1857 OhioFemaleCollege ad Cincinnatus v2 no1.png|Advertisement for Ohio Female College, 1857 Image:1857 Cincinnatus v2 no3 FarmersCollege Ohio.png|Cover of Cincinnatus, publication of Farmer's College, 1857

References

References

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6. [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=781 Ohio Female College, ''Ohio History Central'', July 1, 2005.]
7. "College Hill 2020 Statistical Neighborhood Approximation". City of Cincinnati.
8. (18 August 1924). "Obituary for John e. Bruce". The Cincinnati Enquirer.
9. Michael A. Banks. (Spring 2007). "Big Dream, Small Car: Powel Crosley Jr.'s Indiana Automobile". Indiana Historical Society.