It took nearly a week to hoist Billy Yank from the east bank of the Great Miami River to the...
After generals Hamar and Clair suffered resounding defeats at the hands of the Indians, it appeared that the campaign wasn’t going well...
There were dozens of “cafes” in and around Hamilton that flaunted, sometimes openly and brazenly, the laws enacted to codify...
In the spring of 1903, the Hamilton Board of Education hired a 29-year-old recent graduate of Miami University as the...
City historians a hundred years ago were fond of the phrase “There were giants in those days” when talking about...
Over the course of generations, there have been many families whose names are synonymous with Hamilton — be they Becketts,...
At about 6 p.m. on the evening of Saturday, November 21, 1925, Butler County Coronor Hugh Gadd, moonlighting as an officer of...
The Hotel Lee, a café at the corner of Wood Street and Monument Avenue, was one of the hottest spots...
The crowds, as expected, were immense. As the end of legal beer and liquor sales approached, Hamilton Chief of Police...
Like most other cities, Hamilton’s history has been embedded in the names of places and a lot can be learned...
Although his name is nearly forgotten today except for a three-block avenue on the East Side off Grand Boulevard, James Waring...
“And Peter Schwab is dead.” So reads the lead story of the Hamilton Evening Journal on September 15, 1913, one...