
City - Cincinnati, OH - Mt Adams landing 1906

by Mike Savad
Title
City - Cincinnati, OH - Mt Adams landing 1906
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1906
Original title: Mt Adam's incline
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 64 Lock street (Replaced by the interstate), Cincinnati, OH
This is the famous Mount Adams incline, it was complete in 1872, and demolished in 1948. It was in operation for over 75 years. The incline was 945 ft long, and it used to be called the Eden Park incline.
Before the buses could make it up the steep hills, Cincinnati had a series of inclines. An incline is an elevator for streetcars, people and wagons. A trip that may have taken 45min by horse, would have taken only a minute to up the mountain. Some think that Cincinnati were the first to have these, but Pittsburgh PA, actually had them first in the US.
Today, this location where we are at, the base of the incline, up to about midway, there is a large loopy interstate. But what is more interesting is that the original footings for this are still there today. There is a gap between houses (that are slowly being filled in with new houses), and a very broken looking series of walls are still there. They are in terrible condition, and it creates an air of mystery about them, but that is what as there.
Oh and if you were wondering how the cars get out when at the bottom. When it gets to the bottom, the gates lower down, and they hook the streetcar back up and roll off.
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September 22nd, 2021
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