Editing Loveland, Ohio (section)

===Village getaway===
In its early days, Loveland was known as a resort town, with its summer homes for the wealthy, earning it the nickname "Little Switzerland of the [[Miami Valley]]." Future [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[Salmon P. Chase]] maintained a country home near Loveland,<ref name="Cincinnati history">{{cite news|first=Alisha|last=Woolery|url=http://frontier.cincinnati.com/communities/story_loveland1.asp|title=Loveland's natural touch|work=Cincinnati.com|access-date=May 18, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216080304/http://frontier.cincinnati.com/communities/story_loveland1.asp|archive-date=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Morris">{{cite book|title=The Bench and Bar of Cincinnati: Commemorating the Building of the New Court House|editor1-first=William W.|editor1-last=Morris|editor2-first=E. B.|editor2-last=Krieger|location=Cincinnati|publisher=New Court House Publishing Company|year=1921|page=16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X50jAQAAMAAJ|quote=It is a coincidence that his county home near Loveland, later came into the possession, for a few years, of Judge Charles J. Hunt, during the years the latter occupied the local Common Pleas Court bench.}}</ref> while the Cincinnati [[YWCA USA|YWCA]] maintained a summer cottage there.<ref name="OhioHist 105">{{cite journal|url=http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=010567.html&StartPage=46&EndPage=71&volume=105|title=Housing the Women Who Toiled: Planned Residences for Single Women, Cincinnati 1860–1960|first=Patricia A.|last=Carter|journal=Ohio History|publisher=[[Ohio Historical Society]]|volume=105|pages=46–71|quote=The YWCA's summer cottage was in Loveland, a rural community 25 miles from the city...|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926215840/http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=010567.html&StartPage=46&EndPage=71&volume=105|archive-date=September 26, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The area was also home to Ohio's first [[paper mill]], built in 1810 by John Smith. A local road retains the mill's eventual name, Kugler Mill.<ref name="OhioHist 51">{{cite journal|url=http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0051185.html&StartPage=184&EndPage=194&volume=51|title=Contrasts in 150 Years of Publishing in Ohio|first=Charles M.|last=Thomas|journal=Ohio History|publisher=Ohio Historical Society|volume=51|pages=184–194|quote=There [in Loveland], on the Little Miami River, John Smith built the first paper mill in Ohio for a settler named Christian Waldschmidt or Wallsmith.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115114/http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0051185.html&StartPage=184&EndPage=194&volume=51|archive-date=September 29, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The area surrounding Loveland in Clermont County was well known for its [[peach]]es and [[Garden strawberry|strawberries]].{{sfn|Smith|Smith|1964|p=419|ps=: "The Clermont County hills around Loveland were famous for peaches and strawberries that were shipped to all parts of the United States. In 1845 one grower sent 400 [[quart]]s of strawberries to the Cincinnati market in one day; some were packed in ice and shipped to New Orleans."}} The Obionsville Post Office began operations on October 24, 1831, then changed its name to the Loveland Post Office on January 14, 1848.<ref name="PO of Ohio">{{cite book|title=The Post Offices of Ohio|last1=Gallagher<!--|access-date=August 17, 1992-->|first1=John S.|last2=Patera|first2=Alan H.|publisher=The Depot|year=1979|location=Burtonsville, Maryland|page=111|quote=Established as Obionsville Post Office on October 24, 1831, name changed to Obanionsville Post Office on July 31, 1832, name changed to Loveland Post Office on January 14, 1848.}}<!-- Citation for 1775 est. date: {{cite press release|publisher=Phaethon World-Stage Co. Pictures|date=February 11, 2005|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/20052/0/prweb207336.htm|title=Oprah's Valentine's Day Secret|access-date=May 29, 2006}} --></ref>

The [[Hillsboro and Cincinnati Railroad]] was chartered in 1846 to run a line between [[Hillsboro, Ohio|Hillsboro]] and O'Bannon Creek in Loveland on the [[Little Miami Railroad]]'s route. By 1850, the H&C had completed the {{convert|37|mi|km|0}} to Hillsboro, Ohio. The H&C would lease its line in perpetuity to the [[Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad]] and ultimately became the mainline of the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]]. Loveland's location at the junction of the Little Miami Railroad (now converted into the [[Loveland Bike Trail]]) and the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad fueled the city's growth, bringing "40 passenger trains per day, and 12 scheduled freight trains between Loveland and Cincinnati."<ref name="Chamber history" />

Another railroad ran through [[History of the United States (1789–1849)|antebellum]] Loveland: the [[Underground Railroad]]'s Eastern Route from Cincinnati included a stop at the village and continued northward to [[Waynesville, Ohio|Waynesville]] and [[Lebanon, Ohio|Lebanon]].<ref name="Enquirer Trường">{{cite news|title=Rev. Thomas B. Foster led history group|first=Quan|last=Truong|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=January 27, 2009|access-date=January 27, 2009|url=http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20090127/NEWS0104/901270342/|quote=[Rev. Thomas B. Foster's] family farm was also a stopping point for slaves on the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. 'His great-grandfather would put (the slaves) in a wagon and cover it with straw and take them on up to Waynesville,' Avery Foster said.}}</ref><ref name="Siebert">{{cite book|title=The Underground Railroad in Ohio, vol. 11|first=Wilbur H.|last=Siebert|url=http://www.ohiohistory.org/undergroundrr/siebert.pdf|author-link=Wilbur Henry Siebert|access-date=May 28, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625084913/http://www.ohiohistory.org/undergroundrr/siebert.pdf|archive-date=June 25, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} Visible in [[:Image:Undergroundrailroadsmall2.jpg|Routes of the Underground Railroad, 1830&nbsp;- 1865]], by the same author.</ref> During the Civil War, Confederate Brig. Gen. [[John Hunt Morgan]] and his troops passed through Loveland, seizing possessions of northern and southern sympathizers alike (see [[Morgan's Raid]]).<ref name="DDN Bennish">{{cite news|title=The Longest Raid|first=Steve|last=Bennish|work=[[Dayton Daily News]]|location=Dayton, Ohio|date=September 19, 1999|page=B1|access-date=August 28, 2010|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:DDNB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0F51BC5548793584&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0E592096DB567DF5|format=fee required|quote=As Morgan made his way through the Buckeye state, his raid became a series of unforgettable encounters that played like lost script pages from ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly|The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly]]''. In northern Loveland in Warren County, Sarah Todd Jones, described by Horwitz as a 'sharp-tongued' Southern sympathizer, tried to save her horse from being taken. 'I am a Rebel,' she pleaded. 'All my sympathy is with the South ... Please don't take my horse!' The trooper paused thoughtfully. 'Well, if it's true that you support our cause, then we thank you for your donation,' he said, sweeping his hat off in a grand gesture.}} Review of {{cite book|title=The Longest Raid of the Civil War: Little-Known & Untold Stories of Morgan's Raid Into Kentucky, Indiana & Ohio|first=Lester V.|last=Horwitz|location=Cincinnati, Ohio|publisher=Farmcourt Publishing, Inc.|year=2003|isbn=0-9670267-3-3}}</ref>

[[File:Railroad Station Loveland Ohio from Baltimore & Ohio Employes Magazine August 1914 Vol 02 No 11 Page 108.jpg|thumb|Railroad Station, circa 1914]]

Until wagon bridges were built across the Little Miami River, settlement of Loveland was mostly confined to the Clermont County side, which had access to a railroad station.<ref name="Clermont history">{{cite web|url=http://www.co.clermont.oh.us/508/includes/page/topic/history/history_default.php?topic=villages&item=loveland|title=Loveland|work=History of Clermont County Villages|publisher=Clermont County, Ohio|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927200212/http://www.co.clermont.oh.us/508/includes/page/topic/history/history_default.php?topic=villages&item=loveland|archive-date=September 27, 2006}}</ref><ref name="GLHSM history">{{cite web|title=Loveland History|publisher=Greater Loveland Historical Society|access-date=February 8, 2009|url=http://www.lovelandmuseum.org/LovelandHistory.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723024540/http://www.lovelandmuseum.org/LovelandHistory.asp|archive-date=July 23, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> A wooden bridge spanned the river at Symmestown and [[Branch Hill, Ohio|Branch Hill]] from 1850 until it washed out six years later.<ref name="Enquirer July 4th">{{cite news|title=The fourth at branch hill|work=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer|The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer]]|date=July 6, 1871|page=3|id={{ProQuest|878006643}}}}</ref> For years, residents on both sides pushed for a bridge at Loveland, to avoid the long trip to [[Fosters, Ohio|Foster's Crossing]] or [[Miamiville, Ohio|Miamiville]], and by 1868 threatened to have Miami Township annexed to Hamilton County if Clermont County officials continued to obstruct the project.<ref name="Enquirer bridge meeting">{{cite news|title=Important bridge meeting|work=The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer|date=December 1, 1868|page=8|id={{ProQuest|877420160}}}}</ref> A $75,000 [[suspension bridge]] was finally built at Symmestown and Branch Hill and dedicated on July 4, 1871. It was anchored by four {{convert|7000|lb|adj=on}} [[wrought iron]] columns, at that time the heaviest ever made in the United States.<ref name="Enquirer July 4th" /> A second bridge, connecting East and West Loveland, was completed between 1872 and 1876.<!-- https://www.proquest.com/docview/877256640 https://www.proquest.com/docview/877329901 -->

Loveland incorporated as a village on May 16, 1876. John H. Law was elected the village's first mayor.<ref name="Pauwels" /> That year, the Cincinnati Campground at Loveland was the site of the [[holiness movement]]'s tenth annual National Camp Meeting.<ref name="Enquirer camp meeting">{{cite news|title=The National Camp-Meeting at Loveland|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=July 22, 1876|page=8|id={{ProQuest|877827000}}}}</ref>

In 1886, the skeleton of a [[mastodon]] and prehistoric [[stone tool]]s were found in a Loveland [[gravel pit]].{{sfn|Smith|Smith|1964|p=24|ps=: "Bones of a mastodon and implements were found thirty feet below the surface of the ground, in a gravel pit, at Loveland, Ohio, in 1866."}}

In 1903, Loveland voted to become a [[Dry county|dry village]],<ref name="Dry town">{{cite news|url=http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=217|title=Loveland – A Dry Town|work=The Informer|publisher=Ohio Historical Center Archives Library|date=February 1903|volume=6|issue=9|pages=1|access-date=May 28, 2007}}</ref> prohibiting the sale of alcohol within the village limits 17 years before a [[Prohibition in the United States|national ban]]. Loveland was a center of the [[Temperance movement]] in Ohio.<ref name="NYT temperance">{{cite news|title=Ohio Democratic Faith.; Little Outward Comfort for the Party —Tilden and Bookwalter.|work=The New York Times|date=August 22, 1881|page=1|access-date=October 25, 2008|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B01E5D9133EE433A25751C2A96E9C94609FD7CF}}</ref>

Downtown Loveland's proximity to the Little Miami River has made it vulnerable to flooding. The worst such event, the [[Ohio Flood of March 1913]], destroyed a [[Gristmill|corn mill]]<ref name="Clermont history" /> and washed out the Loveland Bridge, which was replaced with an iron bridge the next year.<ref name="Beller">{{cite book|title=Loveland: Passages Through Time|first1=Janet Brock|last1=Beller|first2=Maxine Elliott|last2=Nason|publisher=Greater Loveland Historical Society|year=1992|oclc=27166122}}</ref>

In the 1920s, ''[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]]'' ran a promotion that offered a free plot of land in Loveland, along the Little Miami River, after paying for a one-year subscription to the daily. The [[Loveland Castle]] was built on multiple plots obtained through this promotion.<ref name="Castle KOGT">{{cite web|url=http://www.lovelandcastle.com/kogt.html |title=Knights of the Golden Trail |publisher=Historic Loveland Castle Museum |date=July 18, 2002 |access-date=July 5, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929165436/http://www.lovelandcastle.com/kogt.html |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref>