There were dozens of “cafes” in and around Hamilton that flaunted, sometimes openly and brazenly, the laws enacted to codify...
Like most other cities, Hamilton’s history has been embedded in the names of places and a lot can be learned...
Many Hamilton residents will recall the days when the city’s entrances welcomed visitors to “The Safe Capital of the World.”...
At about 6 p.m. on the evening of Saturday, November 21, 1925, Butler County Coronor Hugh Gadd, moonlighting as an officer of...
After the assassination of George Murphy and other escalations in the Little Chicago gangster wars, police were on the lookout...
By Richard O Jones When Prohibition first kicked in, Lyman Williams led a consortium of saloon owners to purchase a...
The slaying of Prohibition agent Robert Gary quickly caught the attention of state officials who swept into the city 24...
It took nearly a week to hoist Billy Yank from the east bank of the Great Miami River to the...
Over the course of generations, there have been many families whose names are synonymous with Hamilton — be they Becketts,...
Two weeks after Jack Parker’s body was found beside a Lebanon highway and just less than a month after the...
By Richard O Jones Following the showdown in the streets of Cincinnati when Hamilton County Detective Dutch Schaffer put down...
The crowds, as expected, were immense. As the end of legal beer and liquor sales approached, Hamilton Chief of Police...