Ohio Adventures: How to Spend 2 Days in Cincinnati, Ohio
It's a conversation I often have when I'm traveling: the “ so where are you from? ” conversation. And, weirdly, when I tell people that I'm from Ohio, there always seems to be a good chance that the person I'm talking to will respond with, “ Oh, I went to Cincinnati once! “ This always used to baffle me. Of all the places that I know and love in Ohio, the southern city of Cincinnati was never in my top 5 – maybe not even in my top 10! But if so many people from outside of Ohio (and outside of the US, even) were visiting Cincinnati, I felt like maybe I was missing something. Findlay Market A quick Cincinnati history lesson The city of Cincinnati sits at the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, right across the state line from Kentucky in southwest Ohio. The city was settled in 1788, and quickly became a “boom town,” growing rapidly in both population and wealth. In fact, by the mid-1800s, Cincinnati was one of the l...