Hamilton, Ohio
Hamilton, Ohio City of Hamilton Main Street in Hamilton Main Street in Hamilton Hamilton, Ohio is positioned in Ohio Hamilton, Ohio - Hamilton, Ohio Hamilton is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Butler County, Ohio, United States, in the state's southwestern corner. The populace was 62,447 at the 2010 census. The town/city is part of the Cincinnati urbane area.
Most of the town/city is in the Hamilton City School District.
The industrialized city is seeking to revitalize through the arts; it was officially declared the "City of Sculpture" in 2000. Its initiative has thriving many sculpture installations to the city, which established the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park.
1.1 Hamilton Hydraulic Hamilton, Ohio, was established in 1791 as Fort Hamilton (named to honor Alexander Hamilton).
Hamilton was first incorporated by act of the Ohio General Assembly in 1810, but lost its status in 1815 for failure to hold elections.
Designated the county seat, this became a town/city in 1857.
On 14 March 1867, Hamilton withdrew from the townships of Fairfield and St.
On the afternoon of 17 September 1859, Abraham Lincoln appeared at the Hamilton Station (the station is on the city's Historic Preservation list).
By the mid-19th century, Hamilton had advanced as a momentous manufacturing city.
The Great Miami River valley, in which Hamilton was located, had turn into an industrialized giant.
The town/city has three historic districts, including Lindenwald and the rest that feature turn-of-the-century homes.
Hamilton also had a Jewish community; with increased immigration by Eastern European Jews, they established Beth Israel Synagogue in 1901 as an Orthodox alternative to Hamilton's Reform Jewish church.
Factories in Hamilton converted their operations to support the war accomplishment, manufacturing military supplies, such as tank turrets, Liberty ship and submarine engines, and machined and stamped metal parts.
With the 1950s came the assembly of the new interstate highway I-75, part of a nationwide fitness and one which bypassed the city.
Until 1999, when the Butler County Veterans Highway was built, Hamilton was the second-largest town/city in the United States without direct interstate access. On 30 March 1975, Easter Sunday, James Ruppert murdered 11 family members in his mother's home at 635 Minor Avenue in Hamilton, in what is referred to as the "Easter Sunday Massacre".
In the late 20th century, industrialized revamping in heavy manufacturing resulted in widespread loss of jobs in older industrialized cities, as operations were consolidated , relocated, and finally moved offshore.
Like other Rust Belt metros/cities in the northern tier, Hamilton has struggled to precarious a new economy after such wide-scale shifts but it has retained more of its populace than many such cities.
On 28 May 1986, as part of a plan to increase publicity about Hamilton, the town/city council voted 5-1 in favor of adding an exclamation point to the city's name.
Thus, Hamilton officially became Hamilton! While used extensively in the city's documents, letterheads, company cards and on small-town signage, "Hamilton!" In 2009, the town/city won the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Awards for best-tasting municipal water for the United States; and in 2010, a Gold Medal for the best in the world. The Hamilton Hydraulic, also called the Hamilton & Rossville Hydraulic, was a fitness devised to supply water power to shops and mills; it spurred one of Hamilton's greatest periods of industrialized and populace growth (1840-1860).
Specially assembled canals and natural reservoirs brought water from the Great Miami River north of Hamilton into the town as a origin of power for future industries.
The hydraulic began about four miles north of Hamilton on the river, where a dam was assembled to divert water into the system.
There it took a sharp west turn to the river at the present intersection of Market Street and North Monument Avenue, between the former Hamilton Municipal Building and the present Courtyard by Marriott.
The hydraulic remained a principal origin of power for Hamilton industries through the 1870s when stationary steam engines became practical and affordable.
The hydraulic thriving auto manufacturer Henry Ford to Hamilton after World War I, when he sought a site for a tractor factory.
A Rossville hydraulic also was built, but never accomplished the success of the Hamilton system.
In the Great Miami River Valley, 360 persons died, about 200 of whom were from Hamilton.
The flood waters were so powerful that inside two hours they finished all four of Hamilton's bridges: Black Street, High-Main Street, Columbia, and the barns bridge.
In Hamilton the flood waters rose with unexpected and frightening suddenness, reaching over three to eight feet in depth in downtown, and up to eighteen feet in the North End, along Fifth Street and through South Hamilton Crossing.
Nearly one-third of the populace was left homeless and displaced: 10,000 of the 35,000 inhabitants of Hamilton.
Thousands of homes were finished by the flood; afterward, many that were too damaged to repair had to be completed by town/city workers.
Citizens from all the primary cities in the valley, Piqua, Troy, Dayton, Carlisle, Franklin, Miamisburg, Middletown, and Hamilton, gathered together to find a solution.
Chem-Dyne is a hazardous waste dump site positioned on the east side of Hamilton.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.08 square miles (57.19 km2), of which 21.60 square miles (55.94 km2) is territory and 0.48 square miles (1.24 km2) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 62,477 citizens , 24,658 homeholds, and 15,489 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 84.0% White, 8.5% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 3.6% from other competitions, and 2.9% from two or more competitions.
The median age in the town/city was 35.3 years.
As of the census of 2000, there were 60,690 citizens , 24,188 homeholds, and 15,867 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 88.94% White, 7.55% African American, 0.29% Native American, 0.45% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.46% from other competitions, and 1.28% from two or more competitions.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 29.9% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $35,365, and the median income for a family was $41,936.
West Side Little League in Hamilton, Ohio has been to the Little League World Series four times.
Hamilton Little League has also won eight of the last nine state championships, and ten of the last twelve, as of 2016.
They elect a mayor inside the council, and together select and appoint a experienced town/city manager to operate the city.
Operating as the legislative branch of the City, the Council provides policy direction to the City Manager. The judge of the municipal court is also an propel official. The city's Council-Manager form of government was established in 1926, based then on election by proportional representation with a single transferable vote (STV). This fitness was advanced to try to meet the quickly changing needs of metros/cities with their burgeoning immigrant populations.
Hamilton was one of a several major Ohio metros/cities that adopted the PR/STV form of elections in the early 20th century; Ashtabula was the first in 1915.
This fitness was considered more progressive than plurality voting, with winner take all, and the at-large election fitness found in some cities, which also benefited the majority and generally succeeded in preventing minorities from gaining office.
Use of PR/STV resulted in more minorities, including women, being able to enter politics and attain positions on town/city councils which they likely otherwise would not have attained in at-large voting. Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a momentous minority is that representing 5% or more of the population.
The success of PR/STV nationally (including in New York City for a time) led to a political backlash from bosses and parties that lost power.
In Hamilton, opponents mounted various campaigns to repeal the charter, finally succeeding after four floundered popular votes in 12 years. Since the town/city of Hamilton returned to plurality voting, the black minority has less incessantly been able to win seats on the council. In 2015, however, town/city council members include two women (white) and an black man; other members are white males. The town/city also maintains a Public Safety Director for the City, responsible for police protection, staffed by more than 110 full-time professionals, and fire protection, staffed by more than 110 full-time fire fighters. Hamilton is served by the Hamilton City School district.
The precinct has underway a primary $200 million capital program including assembly of eight elementary schools, a freshman school, two completely renovated middle schools, and an upgraded high school with two new gyms, a new media center, six new classrooms and a new cafeteria.
Bush visited Hamilton and signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law at Hamilton High School. Talawanda, Ross, and New Miami School Districts also serve corners of the city.
Joseph Consolidated School, Sacred Heart of Jesus School and Queen of Peace School), serve the town/city and encircling area.
Miami University, based in Oxford, Ohio, has a county-wide ground in the city.
Miami University Hamilton opened in 1968 and now has more than 5,000 students.
Highways serving Hamilton are US Highway 127, State Route 128, State Route 129, State Route 130, and State Route 4.
Hamilton's locale at the intersection of U.S.
The Lane Public Library is positioned in an architecturally momentous building in the heart of Hamilton's Historic German Village.
The Lane Public Library also features the Lane Libraries Community Technology Center, positioned on the ground floor of the historic Robinson-Schwenn Building at 10 Journal Square in downtown Hamilton.
City of Hamilton, Ohio.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hamilton United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Hamilton carves new future", The Enquirer, 29 May 2002 "City's Gimmick", The Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 September 2001 "Population: Ohio" (PDF).
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"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"City Manager's Office", Hamilton City website, accessed 30 March 2015 Barber, PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION AND ELECTION REFORM IN OHIO (excerpt), Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995, pp.
Hamilton, Ohio: Past Present Press, 2000.
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