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Unincorporated area in Indiana, United States
Cincinnati
is an
unincorporated area
within
Center Township
of
Greene County
,
Indiana
, United States.
History
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A post office was established at Cincinnati in 1874, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1934.
[3]
According to tradition, the community was named when a visitor told the innkeeper that the surrounding hills and whiskey made him recall his home in
Cincinnati, Ohio
.
[4]
Education
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Cincinnati has a public library, the Eastern Branch of the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.
[5]
Eastern Greene High School
is also located in Cincinnati despite having a
Bloomfield
address.
References
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]
- ^
"U.S. Census website"
.
United States Census Bureau
. Retrieved
January 31,
2008
.
- ^
"Cincinnati, Indiana"
.
Geographic Names Information System
.
United States Geological Survey
,
United States Department of the Interior
. Retrieved
October 10,
2009
.
- ^
"Greene County"
. Jim Forte Postal History
. Retrieved
September 3,
2014
.
- ^
Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995).
From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History
. Indiana University Press. p.
95
.
ISBN
978-0-253-32866-3
.
One night, during the first year of its existence, a drunken cattle buyer at the inn jokingly remarked that the place reminded him of his hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio, on account of its high hills and abundance of good whiskey.
- ^
"Locations"
. Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library
. Retrieved
March 7,
2018
.