Mount Airy, Cincinnati
Mount Airy is a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mt. Airy Water Tower
Mount Airy is a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.[1] The population was 8,779 at the 2010 census.[2]
History[]
Mount Airy was incorporated as a village in 1865 from land given by Mill Creek and Green townships.[3] Mount Airy was annexed by the City of Cincinnati in 1911.[4]
The neighborhood includes the 1,471 acre Mt. Airy Forest, the largest of the Cincinnati parks. The Mt. Airy water tower, resembling a castle, was built in 1926-27. The complex includes 13 towers on two levels and has a capacity of 8.5 million gallons.[5]
Notable person[]
- Ken Griffey, Jr., Hall of Fame baseball player
- Jo Ellen Pellman, actress
References[]
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Airy
- ^ "Mt. Airy Statistical neighborhood approximation". City of Cincinnati. p. 2. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ Nelson, S. B. (1894). "History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio: Their Past and Present, Including...biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens, etc., Volume 1". p. 424. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ Clarke, S. J. (1912). "Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 2". The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 528. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- ^ "Mt. Airy Water Towers". Ohio Memory. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
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