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Centennial Exposition in 1888 was Cincinnati's last hurrah as major city of the West


Centennial Exposition in 1888 was Cincinnati’s last hurrah as major city of the West
Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer
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Music Hall was one of the exhibition buildings for the Centennial Exposition in Cincinnati in 1888. The temporary bridge over Elm Street connected Music Hall to the Washington Park Building.
The largest festival Cincinnati has ever thrown opened July 4, 1888. The event commemorated 100 years since the city’s founding, though the name, Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, folded in the entire Northwest Territory, strangely de-emphasizing the Queen City.
The exposition was “to be an attest of the development of art, science and industry in a century of the Northwestern Territory” and a showcase for the advancements in machinery during the Industrial Revolution. This was the grandest and last of the expositions that Cincinnati had hosted nearly every year since 1870. ....

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Know our history? Take the Cincinnati history pop quiz


As we near the end of the school year, we thought it would be fun to test your knowledge of local history. So, try out the first Our History quiz based on the historical stories that have appeared in The Enquirer over the past few years.
As with all good educational tools, if don’t know the answer now, then you can learn something. Good luck!
Questions
(Scroll after the questions for the answers)
1. In 1924, DeHart Hubbard of Avondale was the first Black athlete to win an Olympic Gold Medal. What event did he win?
2. When Mayor Edward N. Waldvogel died in office in 1954, who was the vice mayor who became the first woman to serve as Cincinnati’s mayor? ....

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