Mount Airy, Cincinnati

Mount Airy is a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.[1] The population was 8,779 at the 2010 census.[2]

Mount Airy is a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mt. Airy Water Tower

History

Mount Airy was incorporated as a village in 1865 from land given by Mill Creek and Green townships.[3] Mount Airy was annexed by the City of Cincinnati in 1911.[4]

The neighborhood includes the 1,471 acre Mt. Airy Forest, the largest of the Cincinnati parks. The Mt. Airy water tower, resembling a castle, was built in 1926-27. The complex includes 13 towers on two levels and has a capacity of 8.5 million gallons.[5]

Notable person
  • Ken Griffey, Jr., Hall of Fame baseball player

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Airy
  2. "Mt. Airy Statistical neighborhood approximation". City of Cincinnati. p. 2. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. Nelson, S. B. (1894). "History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio: Their Past and Present, Including...biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens, etc., Volume 1". p. 424. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  4. Clarke, S. J. (1912). "Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 2". The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 528. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  5. "Mt. Airy Water Towers". Ohio Memory. Retrieved 7 January 2012.

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