Over-the-Rhine: When Beer Was King (American Palate) by Michael D. Morgan,Greg Hardman

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By Michael D. Morgan,Greg Hardman

Over-the-Rhine is a spot the place a construction proprietor can bump into large caverns beneath a basement flooring or locate long-forgotten tunnels that go back and forth a ways less than urban streets. Its current mysteries are brought on by a prior that transcends the typical tale of ways towns swap through the years: it's the tale of ways a conflict among immigrants and "real americans" helped rob Cincinnati of its snapshot, its soul and its financial system. within the 1870s, OTR was once similar to the cultural hearts of Paris and Vienna. by means of the flip of the final century, the local was once domestic to approximately 300 saloons and had over a dozen breweries inside or adjoining to its borders. It used to be liked by way of numerous electorate and tourists for the precise purposes that others effectively sought to spoil it. this can be the tale of ways the center of the "Paris of the United States" turned a time capsule.

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