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Avenue Grounds

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Avenue Grounds Cincinnati 1875 Sep 9
Avenue Grounds Cincinnati 1875 Sep 9

Avenue Grounds was a baseball field located in Cincinnati, USA. Also known as Brighton Park and Cincinnati Baseball Park, the ground was home to the Cincinnati Reds baseball club from April 25, 1876, to August 27, 1879. The ballpark featured a grandstand that could seat up to 3,000 fans. It was approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the Union Grounds, where the original professional team from the area, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, played, and was approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) from the heart of the city, so horse-drawn streetcars and trains were a popular way to travel to the park. The ballpark had first opened in 1875, and would continue to be used for various types of amateur sports until at least the mid-1890s. The major league club of 1876–1879 played poorly, and actually dropped out of the league after the 1879 season. The club revived for 1880, and relocated to the Bank Street Grounds.

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Avenue Grounds
Geringer Street, Cincinnati Camp Washington

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45225 Cincinnati, Camp Washington
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Avenue Grounds Cincinnati 1875 Sep 9
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Camp Washington, Cincinnati
Camp Washington, Cincinnati

Camp Washington is a city neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is located north of Queensgate, east of Fairmount, and west of Clifton and University Heights. The community is a crossing of 19th-century homes and industrial space, some of which is being converted into loft apartments. The population was 1,343 at the 2010 census.The first Ohio State Fair was held in Camp Washington in 1850. It had been scheduled the year prior but delayed due to a severe outbreak of cholera.During the U.S.–Mexican War Camp Washington was an important military location, training 5,536 soldiers who went to war. Camp Washington was annexed to the City of Cincinnati in November, 1869.This neighborhood is also the location of National Register buildings, including the Oesterlein Machine Company-Fashion Frocks, Inc. Complex and the old Cincinnati Workhouse (designed by Samuel Hannaford), which was destroyed and rebuilt to serve as a drug rehabilitation center. The neighborhood has been home to the award-winning Cincinnati chili parlor, Camp Washington Chili for more than 70 years.In 2002, a cow, later named Cincinnati Freedom, escaped a slaughterhouse on December 29, 2008 in Camp Washington and eluded police and humane officers for eleven days, drawing national attention. She was captured on February 26 in the nearby village of Clifton. The event is memorialized in a mural on a building wall on Colerain Avenue, Cincinnati. The mural is near the site of the former slaughterhouses in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Freedom lived out the rest of her days at Farm Sanctuary's New York Shelter in Watkins Glen New York. See references 8 and 9 below for details of the event.