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    QUEEN CITY

    May 21, 2019 3 minutes
    –Sarah Richardson

    N SEPTEMBER 1862, ridges overlooking Cincinnati from the south side of the Ohio River rang with the sound of workers building earthworks. Major General Lew Wallace had dragooned workers to build positions for fending off any invasion by Confederate troops gathered in Lexington, Ky. The Queen City was then the country’s seventh largest urban center, and her busy docks supported the supply chain of food, arms, and goods to the Union troops out West.. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in the heart of Cincinnati overlooks the river, a point of contemplation of centuries of struggle. There is also a vibrant brewery scene. Don’t miss the Beer Trail and the underground caverns where lager beer, the cultural import of German immigrants in the 1830s, was aged.

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