Editing North College Hill, Ohio (section)

===Cary family===
In 1813–14, William Cary, having migrated from [[New Hampshire]] to Cincinnati in 1802,<ref>[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lynnbran/PS02/PS02_481.htm William Cary - Person Sheet], ''Ancestry.com''. Retrieved on 6/29/2008.</ref> purchased {{convert|491|acre|km2}} north of Cincinnati along what is now Hamilton Avenue ([[U.S. Route 127]]). Cary built a log cabin and moved his family to this “wilderness,” then known as [[Mill Creek Township, Hamilton County, Ohio|Mill Creek Township]].<ref>[http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Hamilton/HamiltonChapXXXIII.htm Mill Creek Township], ''History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio''. Retrieved on 3/16/2008.</ref>

Soon after, William Cary purchased an additional {{convert|75|acre|m2}} north of North Bend Road adjacent to his original tract, and sold part of it to his nephew Robert Cary. Robert called the land Clovernook Farm and initially erected a small frame house for his family. In 1832, he built the white, brick house now known as Cary Cottage (see photo) which stands on the campus of the ''[http://www.clovernook.org/ Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired]'' and is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>Venable, W. H., ''Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley'', Robert Clarke & Co., 1891.</ref>  Within a year of his settlement, Robert also laid out the first community in the area, called [[Clovernook]], on the east side of Hamilton Avenue.

Robert Cary and his wife Elizabeth raised nine children, two of whom, [[Alice Cary|Alice]] and [[Phoebe Cary|Phoebe]], became well-known poets and writers. Both girls began having their poems published as teenagers, and they eventually counted among their admirers [[Massachusetts]] poet and [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]] [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], ''[[New York Tribune]]'' newspaper editor [[Horace Greeley]], and author [[Edgar Allan Poe]], who pronounced Alice Cary's ''[https://poets.org/poem/pictures-memory Pictures of Memory]'', "one of the most musically perfect lyrics in the English language".<ref>"[http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/carysisters.html The Cary Sisters] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213134817/http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/carysisters.html |date=2007-12-13 }},” ''Unitarian Universalist Historical Society''. Retrieved on 3/23/2008.</ref>

Cary Cottage became the first home for blind women in Ohio through the work of the Trader sisters, [[Florence Bishop Trader|Florence]] and [[Georgia Duckworth Trader|Georgia]] (who was blind). In 1903 the Cary house and the land surrounding it were purchased by [[William Cooper Procter|William Procter]], grandson of the [[Procter & Gamble]] co-founder, in order to give them in trust to the Traders. The sisters used the land to establish the Clovernook home and provide employment to visually impaired women as a source of dignity and direction. Today, the ''Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired'' offers instruction, employment, community living and low vision services for men and women, and runs three manufacturing departments, including one of the world's largest volume producers of [[Braille]] publications.<ref>"[http://www.clovernook.org/about_history.php Clovernook's History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725182649/http://www.clovernook.org/about_history.php |date=2011-07-25 }},” ''Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired''. Retrieved on 6/29/2008.</ref>