Cincinnati's Central Riverfront
Cincinnati's Central Riverfront is an outstanding riverfront facility. Located along the shore of the Ohio River just south of downtown Cincinnati, this mile-long linear park features many different spaces serving all segments of the region's population. Along with a unique design, it features award winning landscaping, a performance pavilion, concessions, an outdoor skating rink, eight outdoor tennis courts, three sand volleyball courts, a world class playground, a dynamic water feature, and many other attractions. Yeatman's Cove, a part of the Central Riverfront, is the site of the founding of Cincinnati.  more >>

Gateway Sculpture
It was the mighty Ohio River that brought early settlers to the fertile valley that gave birth to Cincinnati. It was also the river that influenced the direction the young city would grow -- as a busy riverboat port, as the terminus of the famed Miami-Erie Canal, as a major industrial and commercial center, and, today, as America's most beautiful inland river city.  more >>

Yeatmans Cove
If you had lived in Old Cincinnati in the post-Revolutionary War days, you probably would have gone to the Common where many of your several hundred townspeople had gathered to shout "Hello, the Boat!" You may or may not have been aware that the Common, the first Cincinnati "park," had been designated for public purposes in surveyor Israel Ludlow's plat in 1789, but you would have used it -- make no mistake.  more>>

How Cincinnati Became a City
The Peace of Paris of 1783 ended the Revolutionary War, recognized the independence of the Thirteen Colonies, and granted the new nation all the lands between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River. A year later, Virginia ceded to the national government its claims to a major part of this area.  more>>