Shantytown stories often involve dogs, like this one from the Cincinnati Post : Tourists visited Shantytown to get a taste of Cincinnati’s “low-life,” and newspapers regularly sent reporters out to get a little local color. Engelhardt’s “Cincinnati The Queen City” (published in 1901 by the Chamber of Commerce), and an 1898 guidebook titled “Kraemer’s Picturesque Cincinnati.” Shantytown was featured in two promotional books about Cincinnati, George W. On the other hand, almost every newspaper report about Shantytown stressed that life among the shacks was romantic and relaxed. On the one hand, it was not only a high-crime area, but a refuge for actual criminals. Over the years, Cincinnati displayed a real ambivalence about Shantytown. Not quite 10 years later, however, the newspapers reported that Shantytown was still around, and making a comeback. The city took advantage of a recent flood, relocated all the inhabitants, photographed the shacks, doused them with gasoline and lit a match. It could be that nobody moved, because they were still there in 1913 when the Cincinnati Health Department burned the whole place down.
As long as we are in the water we cannot be forced to go.’ ‘The river belongs to Uncle Sam,’ he said, ‘and until he orders me to move my boat will not budge. “Some of the River denizens are getting ready to move, but where? They do not know. Apparently, Shantytown did not get the message because, in 1907, the Pittsburgh Coal Company announced plans for a facility in Shantytown, forcing the eviction of 500 residents. In 1901, Charles Glandorf, a contractor who held the lease to five acres of land occupied by this rag-tag community announced that he would force all the squatters to move. There was “Captain” Charles Richmond, known as the richest man in Shantytown because he owned a Victrola and 100 records.Īmong other claims to fame, Shantytown seemed to have nine lives, like a cat. There was “Duke” (any other names unknown) who gained his noble title because he somehow managed to acquire a new derby hat every year. Shantytown was always filled with flamboyant folks. Beginning about 1890, shacks, shanties and houseboats congregated there, in the shadow of the Cincinnati Southern railroad bridge. Perhaps the most colorful such environ was Shantytown, located out in the far West End where the Mill Creek Runs into the Ohio River.
Many of Cincinnati’s old neighborhoods have faded into history.
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