In the late 1850s, author Henry Howe made the first of several passes through Butler County collecting information for...
As Hamilton’s youngest and longest-serving mayor, Charles S. Bosch seemed to be something of a Teflon politician in the days...
“And Peter Schwab is dead.” So reads the lead story of the Hamilton Evening Journal on September 15, 1913, one...
Although his name is nearly forgotten today except for a three-block avenue on the East Side off Grand Boulevard, James Waring...
Like most other cities, Hamilton’s history has been embedded in the names of places and a lot can be learned...
The crowds, as expected, were immense. As the end of legal beer and liquor sales approached, Hamilton Chief of Police...
When John Reily arrived in Hamilton in 1803, the fort had been abandoned for eight years, but traces of it...
Hamilton historians have described John Woods as “a giant in intellect as well as in stature.” His resume is impressive:...
Over the course of generations, there have been many families whose names are synonymous with Hamilton — be they Becketts,...
City historians a hundred years ago were fond of the phrase “There were giants in those days” when talking about...
In the spring of 1903, the Hamilton Board of Education hired a 29-year-old recent graduate of Miami University as the...
There were dozens of “cafes” in and around Hamilton that flaunted, sometimes openly and brazenly, the laws enacted to codify...