Experience the growth of Cincinnati from before settlement by Europeans to the year 1860. Through historically accurate scenes, music and recordings of letters, and words from people living in the area, visitors experience the full gamut of life in early Cincinnati. Make history personal by interacting with interpreters assuming the persona of historical figures from several time periods—an early settlement woman struggling to live in a cabin in the wilderness, or a steamboat captain on a 94-foot-long recreated steamboat docked at Cincinnati's Public Landing. Activities especially for children include negotiating a canal boat through a 50-foot model of the Miami and Erie Canal or imagining floating down the Ohio River on a child-sized flatboat that can be taken apart to build a cabin. Discover Cincinnati’s role during the Civil War in our Jos. Brown Boat Yard exhibit; see a section of a gun deck from the USS Rattler and a fully-restored 30# Parrot Naval gun. Learn about the “Brown Water” navy and how the western rivers were of strategic and logistical importance to the Union.
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