37 Facts About Downtown Cincinnati

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Downtown Cincinnati 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.

9. Downtown Cincinnati is one of six cities chosen for this season's qualifying rounds, with the finals to be held in Las Vegas.

10. Downtown Cincinnati is one of only six cities to host qualifying rounds before the Warrior 11 finals in Las Vegas.

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

12. City of Downtown Cincinnati has a higher than average percentage of households without a car.

13. Downtown Cincinnati had a vibrant jazz scene from the 1920s to today.

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

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

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

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

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

19. University of Downtown Cincinnati, called Downtown Cincinnati or nicknamed UC, is a public institution of learning.

20. Downtown Cincinnati 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.

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

22. Downtown Cincinnati 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.

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

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

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

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

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

29. Downtown Cincinnati was incorporated as a city on March 1, 1819.

30. Downtown Cincinnati 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.

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

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

33. Downtown Cincinnati is served by Fort Washington Way which connects interstates 71 and 75 with Route 50.

34. Downtown Cincinnati is an increasingly residential area with former commercial space, such as Park Place at Lytle, being converted into luxury condos.

35. Downtown Cincinnati is marked by its large collection of historic architecture and contains several historic districts and dozens of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places listings in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.

36. Downtown Cincinnati is laid out on a basin on the Ohio River, surrounded by steep hills.

37. Downtown Cincinnati contains the central business district of Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as a number of urban neighborhoods in the low land area between the Ohio River and the high land areas of uptown.