Portal:Cincinnati/Did you know...
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- ... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
- ... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
- ...that Buttercup Dickerson, who debuted for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds, is credited as the first Italian-American to play Major League Baseball?
- ...that Maria Longworth Nichols Storer became the first American woman to found a music festival when she planned and raised money for the now annually celebrated Cincinnati May Festival?
- ... that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
- ...that Jack Blott, an All-American football center for the Michigan Wolverines, had a Major League Baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds lasting only two games?
Portal:Cincinnati/Did you know.../2 - ... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
- ... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
- ...that department store chain Sakowitz was purchased by shopping mall developing firm L. J. Hooker in 1988, so that a location could be opened at Cincinnati's Forest Fair Mall?
- ...that Sammy Ellis won 22 games and made the All-Star team for the Cincinnati Reds in 1965 despite allowing the most Earned Runs in the league?
- ...that 1933 Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Ted Petoskey and Whitey Wistert debuted for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds two days apart in September 1934?
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