Parks 3

 


CINCINNATI  NATURE  CENTER  (CNC)

These are not postcards
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The Krippendorf Residence

   The Cincinnati Nature Center was originally the residence of Mary and Carl Krippendorf that was referred to as the "Lodge". The 175 acre estate located at 4949 Tealtown Road, Milford contained numerous outbuildings and had a designed landscape that is now known as Rowe Woods. Carl Krippendorf was a well known shoe manufacturer in Cincinnati located at 622 Sycamore. Carl was in frail health all his life and would spend every summer from March to November at the house he built in the clean air of Milford (that was called Fob's Wood). After he and his wife's death just months apart in 1964, the estate was converted into the Cincinnati Nature Center. You can see his shoe company in the Business Section.

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The Krippendorf Lodge                Water Tower   

Milford Nature Center Salamanders.jpg (356919 bytes)      Nature Center-Chipmunk.jpg (886727 bytes)      Nature Center-Raccoon.jpg (794514 bytes)      Mo;ford Sparrow Hawk.jpg (460353 bytes)      Milford Fisher Spider.jpg (417230 bytes)
                                     Chipmunk                 Raccoon              Sparrow Hawk          Fisher Spider

    The 1st card above shows the Tiger Salamander, Striped Newt, Slimy Salamander, Hellbender, Small-Mouthed Salamander

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   Frogs                                    Bobcat                              Grey Squirrel                      Spotted Skunk                      Box Turtle

Milford-Beetles.jpg (406240 bytes)        Milford Swallowtale Butterfly.jpg (331317 bytes)        Milford Cedar Waxwing.jpg (566778 bytes)
                                    Spicebush Swallowtale Butterfly            Cedar Waxwing

   The 1st card above shows the Eye Elater Beetle, the Cottonwood Borer Beetle, the Flea Beetle and the Ground Beetle.

 

MOUNT  ECHO  PARK

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Price Hill

 

MT.  AIRY  FOREST

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                             Oak Ridge Lodge                                                       Pine Ridge Lodge

 

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The Max & Louise Braam Memorial Garden
Mount Airy Arboretum

 

BROOKSIDE  LAKE

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3354  North Bend Road

 

EAST  THIRD  STREET  PARK

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MADISON  PARK

   This park was operated under several different names, including Monarch Park, and Oakley Grove until 1930. Opening in the 1880s it had picnic areas, obviously a lake for boating and swimming, ball fields, a children's playground, and a dancing pavilion. Consisting of 4.5 acres it was located in the area bounded by Madison, Ridge, B&O RR and the Pennsylvania RR. The lake was removed in 1930. There is a current Madison Park located at Madison and Erie that was originally a cemetery. The headstones were removed sometime after 1905 and reportedly dumped into the creek bed along Stetinius and the graves graded over but not removed.

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MUTH'S  FISHING  POND

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Mount Healthy

 

  McKINLEY  PARK                                 PHOENIX  PARK

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  John-Cutter-Wade-Bauer Sts.                             1 block from Chester Park

 

SHARON  WOODS

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        Lake                            Gatch-Megrue Barn                  Elk Lick House

   The Gatch-Megrue Barn was moved here from Milford where it originally was used to store feed and to cure tobacco. It is now used to hold a fine collection of 19th century farm machinery and tools. The Elk Lick House was moved to Sharon Woods in 1970 from Clermont County. Several years were spent in restoring the 1850s, Gothic style farmhouse by the Miami Purchase Association.

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Somerset Presbyterian Church

    The Somerset Presbyterian Church was started in 1820 and the church building shown above was erected in 1829 at Fields-Ertel and Montgomery Roads. This church merged with the Mason Presbyterian Church to form the Heritage Presbyterian Church. The church building was torn down (1991?) and restored at the Sharon Woods Heritage Village Museum and can be seen in the 2nd, present day, photograph.

 

SINTON  PARK                             WADE  STREET  PARK

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 Cutter-Mound-Barr-Kenyon Sts.                                      Children's playground                  

 

WATER WORKS  PARK

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 Norwood

 

                    NORWOOD  PLAYGROUNDS                    ELMWOOD PLACE PLAYGROUND

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REACHMONT  LAKE

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Pleasant Ridge

 

GLENDALE

GLENDALE  YOUTH  CAMP 

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Salvation Army camp                                                Feast For The Poor    

   The Annual Feast for the Poor actually took place at the Salvation Army Citadel downtown at 114 E. 8th St. but I put it here instead with the other card.

 

ST.  EDMUND'S

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Camp/Conference center               St. Edmunds Chapel    
for church & youth groups                                                      

   St. Edmunds is a Christian summer camp for children. (See Bethany Home in the Religious Institutions Section).

 

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                         The Big Park                  (?)                           Little Park                                Large Lake                         Lake Hannigan
                                                                                                                                                                                                Now Lake Park

 

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Upper Park

 

LAKE  ALLYN  PLEASURE  RESORT

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Near Clermont County Airport

 

LOCATION  UNKNOWN

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