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I would like to welcome everyone to William Howard taft National Historic site. The significance of this house is this the birth and boyhood home of our 27th president. And our 10th chief justice, William Howard taft. The house was built around 1840, that is the time we like to use here. His parents were Alphonso Taft and louise taft. They came from the states. When alfonso left vermont he came here to cincinnati, ohio in 1838. He begins to work with a law firm, becoming a lawyer here in cincinnati. This is where he started to make money. Were prominent would laterwho leave downtown cincinnati and moved to the top here at mount auburn. Mount auburn was once referred to as cincinnatis 5th avenue. When the prince of wales came to visit he would stay in a home up her ....
Cincinnati observatory to learn how it became the first public observatory in the western hemisphere. John this is the Cincinnati Observatory Center, situated in the city of cincinnati, approximately six miles east of downtown cincinnati. We call ourselves the birthplace of american astronomy. The founder of the observatory, ormsby mcknight mitchell, was essentially what we call the call sagan of the day. He was the popularizer of astronomy at that particular period. The first observatory of significance in the country and definitely the first public observatory at that time. He was a west point graduate and he was teaching at the Cincinnati College and in 1842 there was a group in town, the society for the promotion of useful knowledge. They offered to mitchell an opportunity to lecture the citizens. He started his lecture in this lecture hall, overflowed ....