"Roselawn Tavern"
at the sign of the well where
tradition and hospitality blend in an atmosphere both ancient and modern.
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| It's the people that make Roselawn special. The neighborhood is made up of white, blacks, Christian, Jews, and a variety of ethnic groups. They are elderly, young, and midle-aged. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Roselawn is one of Cincinnati's newer neighborhoods. About 70 years ago there were few houses. It was open country for dairies and nurseries. Reading Road was a stagecoach road. People looking for suburban life built houses and apartments in Roselawn in the 1940s. The Valley Shop-In was built in 1949. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| It is not only a good place to live, but it has many restaurants, industries, office buildings and community institutions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Northward from the city gate out Reading Way on the old stage route travelled by Dickens, Adams, Clay and Webster, one comes upon "Roselawn Tavern" at the sign of the well where tradition and hospitality blend in an atmosphere both ancient and modern. |
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| Rostlawn is a community of churches and synogogues. Some of them are: Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Chruch, Our Mother of Sorrows Church, Roselawn Lutheran Church, and Roselawn Synogogue. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Miami and Erie Canal ran near Roselawn, where I 75 is now. That's how goods were moved from the farms to the Ohio River. When the highway was built about 50 years ago, the Roselawn boys and others would drag race on the first sections of the road. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the valley there were trees with vines that kids used to swing on like Tarzan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Until 1953 Swifton and Huntington Meadows were part of a dairy farm. Hillcrest Shopping Center was a 9 hole golf course ending about where the park is now. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The site of Woodward High School had been a farm in the 30's and 40's and the owner was flying a red airplane there around 1945. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||