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Cincinnati: Google Maps Guessing Game

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    New Baltimore

Absolutely.

Hyde Park Square

I'll not guess on that since I practically live there.

 

 

    Umm, Colerain Township? Or did you have a more specific location in mind?

I was thinking Northbroook, but I'll give you that.

 

Your Turn.

New Haven

theres some type of shaker village or something around new haven.  kind of interesting.  anyone care to expand on it???

To Grasscat, correct, your turn

 

To atlas, I've been to Miami Whitewater many times and been around the Shaker Trace many times, but I've never understood why the Shaker Trace is named as such. Upon some research, it appears that there is a Shaker Villiage actually located within the park near the top of the outer loop, called the White Water Shaker Villiage. The following link is an aerial shot from google maps. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.293375,-84.741626&spn=0.005766,0.009917&t=k&hl=en

 

Additionally, more information can be found at this website. http://www.shakerworkshops.com/shaker-villages-and-museums/white-water-shaker-village.htm

 

  There was a Shaker settlement in the area. Some of the property was eventually aquired by the Hamilton County Park District, with the goal of preservation. However, the park district has gotten itself into a little bit of a pickle, as the buildings haven't been restored and are gradually becoming run down.

 

    The Park District opened an 8 mile bike trail loop known as Shaker Trace in the area.

 

    Here's what the Miami Purchase Association for Preservation says about the Skaker Village:

 

    The Whitewater Skaker Villlage features the finest collection of Shaker architecture in Ohio. In 1770 Mother Ann Lee, of Manchester, England, became the spiritual leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, commonly known as the Shakers. Ther were called "Shakers" because of a rhythemic, shuffling dance they preformed during religious ceremonies. At such times they often became "affected under the power of God with a mighty shaking ... singing, shouting, and walking the floor under the influence of spiritual signs."

    In 1774 Mother Ann Lee and her followers fled persecution in England, arriving at Watervliet, New York to establish the first Shaker settlement in America. The Shakers lived in communal societies, supporting themselves through farming, furniture making, light manufacturing and seed production. They practised strict celibacy; marriage was prohibited and men and women lived in separate dwelling houses. The Shakers attracted new members through conversions and by adopting orphans, who could accept or deny the Church at maturity.

    The religious order eventually founded 19 villages from Maine to Indiana, and by the 1850's numbered over 6,000 adherants. Each village received a spiritual name. Whatiewater was called "The Lonely Plain of Tribulation." Founded in 1824 by leaders from the Union Village Shaker colony in Lebanon, Ohio, the Whitewater Village began with 18 members, several cabins, and 40 acres of land. The village grew through the years to include 200 members and over 1,400 acres of farmland. At its peak the village consisted of three "families", North, Center and South.

    By 1870 the Shaker movement began to decline, both locally and nationally. Membership at the Whitewater Village waned and the land was gradually sold off. The last Shakers left Whitewater in 1916. All of the structures that remain today are on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

   

I shouldn't have guessed.  Someone else can take my turn.

^thanks to bot you guys for the info.  pretty interesting.  seems like an odd spot to start a village.  at that time, that village must have been in the middle of nowhere.  well, i guess little has changed., but i will go.

 

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.255469,-84.777321&spn=0.002549,0.004852&t=k&hl=en

 

this may be too hard, but maybe not.  either way, i will give a clue.  it is a college branch.  scrolling to either sides is allowed.

 

    Good one! If I were to guess, I would say it's the home of the aircraft maintenance program of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College near Harrison, Ohio.

yep, your turn.

 

  You are correct. There is no other proper name that I know of. There is another interchange of I-71/I-75 and I-275 in Kentucky, but most people call the overlapped portion of those two highways I-75 rather than I-71.

 

    Your turn.

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Is it me or has Google improved the Zoom? I was looking over DT Cincy and you can really get up close now.

They put in updated, higher-resolution images of the downtowns of many cities not terribly long ago in Google Earth, but it doesn't appear that those images have made their way to Google Maps yet.  I haven't noticed a change.

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"Christ Hospital, Jeebus Speaking..."

Wow, it's back from the dead.

 

Those are the currently abandoned Glencoe Apartments, apparently one of the more haunted places in the area.

Good guess, TraderJake - you take the prize.  Your turn to post one now...

I actually didn't need to guess, I lived in the heights, and frequently drove down Auburn (Sycamore) to Liberty St. One day I looked to the side and saw the apartments, and thought that was pretty cool since they are (were) on Haunted Ohio.

 

http://local.google.com/?t=k&ll=39.153526,-84.795522&spn=0.002795,0.004946&t=k

 

 

Has anyone else noted that Google Local takes a lot longer to switch between view levels?

Is it someone where near ross Ohio?

 

Nope, but on the right side of town. (West)

I had to look that one up.  I was pretty wrong.

HINT: You could get very lost trying to find this bridge.

the Lost bridge (well it new now, but you can get to it on the road to Shaanee Lookout from 50)

What's the story behind that name?

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I'll give it to ya...but what's the name of the I/C (or future I/C)

^The Liberty Interchange.

 

= Death

An interchange has a name?  What is it with everything having names in the Cincy area?

hi i am new to this.i would like to post a topic how do i do that

just call me slow  :-D

 

thank you for your time

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Again, too hard I suppose.

 

Its Potter's Park Golf Course, Hamilton's first municipal course built in 1927. The trees to the top are Miami Woods, and the subdivisons to the right are Oak Park and Forest Hills.

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