This thread is an attempt to fill the gab between my Hype Park, Main Street, Highland Park, Rough Rossville, and Prospect Hill/Grandview threads. While a number of different plats define this area, Edgewood and Rheadon are the main subdivisions contained here.

 

Rheadon is a wonderful, well kept neighborhood of decent sized homes constructed mainly in the 1920's. Fort Hamilton Hospital, Lincoln Elementary, and Wilson Middle School are located on its fringe.

 

Information on Rheadon from Hamilton Historian Jim Blount:

Rheadon -- which includes the name of Rhea, the family which once owned the land -- is a Hamilton residential area bounded on the west by Eaton Avenue, on the east by North E Street, on the south by Rhea Avenue and on the north by Webster Avenue. It is between the Edgewood, Prospect Hill, Grand View and Lawn View subdivisions. In 1854, when Hamilton leaders tried to establish an academy or college, Thomas Rhea offered four acres at the top of what is now North D Street as a site for the college, which didn't materialize.

 

Edgewood is an older, more working-class area that contains an odd mixture of housing. Some streets are extremely bland, while others are more interesting.

 

Information on Edgewood from Hamilton Historian Jim Blount:

Edgewood, then west of Hamilton, was a stop on the Junction Railroad (which operated between Hamilton and Indianapolis). Edgewood was in Section 30 of St. Clair Township at the present intersection of Millville and Edgewood avenues at Belt Line Junction in Hamilton. Edgewood subdivision -- which was between Millville Avenue, Main Street and the railroad -- was annexed to Hamilton in 1893. The subdivision grew around the Macneale & Urban Company, Hamilton's first safe factory, which opened in June 1890. The three-story brick factory was built between Millville and Edgewood avenues. Another section of Edgewood subdivision was east of Eaton Avenue, north of Park Avenue and Liberty Street and west of North E Street, including Elvin, Sherman and Progress avenues.

 

Rheadon (notice all the American flags throughout the neighborhood)

 

 

 

 

 

The rear of Lincoln

 

Lincoln will close with the construction of a new elementary on the edge of town   :-(

 

 

 

 

The rear of Fort Hamilton

 

Progress Avenue was featured in Life Magazine in the 1930's in an 8-page article called "American's Most Typical Street"

 

 

 

 

Well kept alleys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fort Hamilton Hospital, now Hamilton's only hospital. My great-great grandfather helped found Fort Hamilton in the 1920's.

 

 

The strip of red brick shows where the original building used to connect to the current buildings

 

My grandfather took these pictures when the hospital was first erected

 

 

You can see this house in the corner of the above picture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A new office building across from Fort Hamilton

 

Wilson Middle School, the only historic building to be reused with the HCS rebuilding project

 

A couple newer homes

 

 

 

A cool home over in Riverview

 

 

Edgewood (more or less)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Macneale and Urban

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hamilton Core Galleries

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 1 - Downtown

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10975.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 2 – Main Street Business District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5108.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 3 - Dayton Lane Historic District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5269.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 4 - Rossville Historic District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5417.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 5 - Glorious Old Industry

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=6730.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 6 - German Village Historic District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=6958.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 7 - Historic Highland Park

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=7208.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 8 - Southeast Neighborhood

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=7309.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 9 - Prospect Hill and Grandview

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8025.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 10 - Forest Hills and Oak Park

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8107.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 11 - Greenwood Cemetery and St. Stephen's Cemetery

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8438.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 12 - Lindenwald

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9336.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 13 - Hyde Park and Verlyn Place

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8424.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 14 – Historic Images of City Life and Atmospheres

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8668.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 15 – Art Deco etc.

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8830.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 16 - The Gardens of Rossville

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9262.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 17 - The Northend and Fordson Heights

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9501.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 18 - The East Avenue Ghetto and Jefferson

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10146.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 19 - Butler County Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10205.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 20 - Houses of Worship

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=11847.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 21 - Rough Rossville

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=11244.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 22 - East Hamilton

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=12164.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 23 - High-Main Bridge

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=13591.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 24 - Rheadon and Edgewood

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=14204.0

It's like Toledo!

It's like Toledo!

 

Except its growing.

those are some solid homes.

 

can you imagine saying you live on dick ave in middle school? that would be tough with a straight face.  :laugh:

can you imagine saying you live on dick ave in middle school? that would be tough with a straight face.  :laugh:

 

Well, its not as bad as saying you had went to Schenck Elementary (a school in my hometown).

Pleasant looking neighborhoods. The entrance on the Wilson Middle School is wonderful!

I think Rheadon looks a lot like Lakewood in some of those photos. Also, Lincoln School looks nearly identical to the elementary and middle schools we have in Lakewood.

 

Ink, if the one on the right is 338 Sherman Avenue, I lived there from 1972 to 1980.

^Yep, that is on Sherman. I wondered if I would get your old house.

 

Did you go to Lincoln or Wilson? Why the move to Random Hills?

can you imagine saying you live on dick ave in middle school? that would be tough with a straight face.  :laugh:

 

Well, its not as bad as saying you had went to Schenck Elementary (an school in my hometown).

 

you really think that is siller? i dont get it. jeez, even the humor is much different down there.  :wink:

i dont get it. jeez, even the humor is much different down there.  :wink:

 

It sounds like 'skank.'

i can see the sk for sch, but i wouldnt have guessed the an for en.

 

i was thinking shenk or skenk which is kind of silly, but nothing like dick ave. i dk german tho.

 

now skank is funny.

 

Those are some pleasant areas and visually interesting.

 

Tangent...I was in Fort Hamilton when the tornadoes went through in '74.

^Yep, that is on Sherman. I wondered if I would get your old house.

 

It looks very much like it.  I went by it two years ago and noticed it was painted that shade of purple.  (It was beige when I lived there.)

 

Congratulations on getting my old house!

 

Did you go to Lincoln or Wilson? Why the move to Random Hills?

 

Yes, I went to Wilson.  It was for my junior high school term.  As for elementary school I went to Fillmore, even though I was in the Lincoln area (long story).

 

As to the move to Random Hills, my parents wanted a bigger house.  I'm pretty sure that's the reason.

Another thing, when I was in high school I used to ride my bike in this area to recapture old memories.  I'm glad to see it's pretty much the same!

Progress looks like a very pleasant street.