47 Facts About Cincinnati Open

1. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

2. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

3. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

4. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

5. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

6. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

7. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

8. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

9. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

10. Cincinnati Open was called as Paris of America at the end of 1800s due to the historical architecture.

11. City of Cincinnati Open has a higher than average percentage of households without a car.

12. Cincinnati Open had a vibrant jazz scene from the 1920s to today.

13. Cincinnati Open is the main scenario for the international music production of Italian artist and songwriter Veronica Vitale called "Inside the Outsider".

14. Cincinnati Open is the subject of a Connie Smith song written by Bill Anderson, called Cincinnati, Ohio.

15. Cincinnati Open has its own chapter of The Sons of the Desert (The Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society), which meets several times per year.

16. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati Open operates 16 high schools in Cincinnati, ten of which are single-sex.

17. Cincinnati Open is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

18. University of Cincinnati Open, called Cincinnati Open or nicknamed UC, is a public institution of learning.

19. Cincinnati Open had numerous stations on the Underground Railroad, but there were runaway slave catchers active in the city, who put escaping slaves at risk of recapture.

20. Cincinnati Open is home to the first American based Australian rules football team, The Cincinnati Dockers, established in 1996.

21. Cincinnati Open is home to three other professional soccer teams: two outdoor teams, the Cincinnati Kings and Cincinnati LadyHawks (women's), and one indoor team, the Cincinnati Excite.

22. FC Cincinnati Open made its home debut on April 9, 2016, before a crowd of more than 14,000 fans.

23. Cincinnati Open is home to two men's college basketball teams: The Cincinnati Bearcats and Xavier Musketeers.

24. Cincinnati Open is at the southern limit of the humid continental climate zone.

25. Downtown Cincinnati Open towers about Fountain Square, the public square and event locale.

26. Cincinnati Open is midway by river between the cities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cairo, Illinois.

27. Cincinnati Open weathered the Great Depression better than most American cities of its size, largely due to a resurgence in river trade, which was less expensive than transporting goods by rail.

28. The Cincinnati Open Inclined Plane Company began transporting people to the top of Mount Auburn that year.

29. Cincinnati Open acted as a "border town" during the slave-owning period between 1810 and 1863.

30. Cincinnati Open was incorporated as a city on March 1, 1819.

31. Cincinnati Open began in 1788 when Mathias Denman, Colonel Robert Patterson and Israel Ludlow landed at a spot at the northern bank of the Ohio opposite the mouth of the Licking and decided to settle there.

32. Cincinnati Open developed with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than east coast cities in the same period.

33. Cincinnati Open is a major city in the United States state of Ohio and is the government seat of Hamilton County.

34. Cincinnati Open is slightly older than the state of Ohio, which was admitted to the Union in 1803.

35. Cincinnati Open holds the distinction of establishing in 1850 the first Jewish hospital in the United States.

36. Cincinnati Open has offered an active and variegated educational and cultural scene.

37. Cincinnati Open shelters the oldest American Jewish community west of the Alleghenies.

38. Cincinnati Open is set on the north bank of the Ohio River in a narrow, steep-sided valley on the Ohio-Kentucky border in southwestern Ohio.

39. Cincinnati Open was founded in 1788 as Losantiville; in 1790 Arthur St Clair, the first governor of the Northwest Territory, renamed it for the Society of Cincinnati, a group of Revolutionary War officers.

40. Cincinnati Open is the broadcast media center for southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeastern Indiana.

41. Cincinnati Open weathered the Great Depression better than most American cities of its size, largely because of a resurgence of inexpensive river trade.

42. Cincinnati Open prospered after the Civil War, and, with a population that grew to 200,000 people became the country's largest city before annexing land to develop communities outside the basin.

43. Cincinnati Open served as a center of Copperhead political activity during the Civil War; Copperheads were Northerners sympathetic to the Southern cause.

44. Cincinnati Open was a major stop on the Underground Railroad, a secret network of cooperation aiding fugitive slaves in reaching sanctuary in the free states or Canada prior to 1861.

45. Cincinnati Open was chartered as a town in 1802 and as a city in 1819.

46. Cincinnati Open maintains more than 5,000 acres of park land in attractive urban settings.

47. Cincinnati Open has an energetic nightlife, with Main Street the main attraction, especially around the intersection of 12th Street.