Bestriding the Mason-Dixon Line, Cincinnati has characteristics of both a cosmopolitan Northeastern city and a tiny Appalachian hill town.
Cincinnati is a tourist friemdly destination with innovative restaurants, massive beer halls, and quirky festivals celebrating everything from baseball to bratwurst.
The city has transformed & the new one is humming with style, fun and excitement. With these fascinating facts listed, get a glimpse of what your next Cincinnati meeting can be!
#1. Records say, 60% of the US population stay within half a day’s drive from Cincinnati. Isn’t it surprising?
#2. Graeter’s Ice Cream was founded here in 1870 and is still a local favorite for handmade treats and baked goods.
#3. Cincinnati is also called as ‘The Queen City’ & ‘Porkopolis’ marking the city as main pork processing center in the country.
#4. Ever wondered about your missing cucumber?? Cincinnati did!! The first recorded crime in Cincinnati was cucumber theft.
#5. Attended by about 500,000 people annually, Cincinnati’s Zinzinnati is the biggest Octoberfest in the US.
#6. The city takes pride in the fact that, the first man to walk on the moon, ‘Neil Armstrong’ was a Cincinnati native.
#7. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is one of the oldest orchestras in the country.
#8. Cincinnati had the first air mail delivery, which was from Cincinnati to Toledo by hot air balloon.
#9. Cincinnati-style chili is well known and loved all across the country. More than 140 chili restaurants can be found here.
#10. Cincinnati is the home to five US presidents: William Howard Taft, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ulysses S. Grant, William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.
#11. Built in 1903, the 15-story Ingalls Building was the world’s first steel reinforced skyscraper.
#12. The innovative director of "E.T.," "Jurassic Park" and "Jaws,"; Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati.
#13. The Cincinnati Red Stockings (later the Reds) became the first professional baseball team in 1869 with a total of 10 players.
#14. Cincinnati was the first city in the country to have a licensed public television station, WCET-TV, in 1954.
#15. Established in 1875, Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is the second oldest zoo in the U.S.
#16. The Procter & Gamble Company was founded in Cincinnati in 1837 as a candle and soap making company because of the area’s easy access to lye.
Places get better when you read about them, see them and finally live them!!
Have your Cincinnati experience at the earliest!!