Portal:Cincinnati/Did you know.../2
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- ... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
- ... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
- ...that department store chain Sakowitz was purchased by shopping mall developing firm L. J. Hooker in 1988, so that a location could be opened at Cincinnati's Forest Fair Mall?
- ...that Sammy Ellis won 22 games and made the All-Star team for the Cincinnati Reds in 1965 despite allowing the most Earned Runs in the league?
- ...that 1933 Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Ted Petoskey and Whitey Wistert debuted for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds two days apart in September 1934?
- ... that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?