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The Coleraine Historical Society Inc.

PO BOX 53726

Colerain Twp., OH 45253

Next Meeting - SEPT 20, 2017 Speaker: Gretchen Wilson History of VanZandt & Galbraith Roads See Meetings Page for more details

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The Coleraine Historical Society meets the third Wednesday of each month

Meeting held in the Colerain Police Department Substation located in Northgate Mall (enter door between Macy's and Sears)

6:45pm Meet and Greet with light refreshments

7:00 – 8:00pm Speaker/Program

Public welcome to attend monthly program

8:00 – 8:30pm Membership Meeting

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Upcoming Meetings and Speakers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Speaker: Gretchen Wilson

"History of VanZandt & Galbraith Roads"

The photograph taken in the late 1800s, was the beginning of Groesbeck. The building at the far left of the picture was the Groesbeck School, built in 1878 and was closed in 1920s when the one and two room schools were centralized.

The building in the center was Wiesenhahn’s Farmer’s Hotel and Grocery Store. The building was later Keller’s Hotel in the 1920s and Groesbeck Tavern in the late 1940s.

To the rear (and on the right) of Wiesenhahn’s is a holding barn, to house animals being driven to market as this was a stopping point during the drive to market.

Want to know more? Come to the meeting!!!

OCTOBER 18, 2017 Chris Smith

Cincinnati Public Library, History Department "1937 Flood in Cincinnati"

January 26, 2017 was the 80th anniversary of the worst natural disaster in the history of Cincinnati and the entirety of the Ohio River Valley. Specifically, the date the seemingly endless rise of the river stopped at 79.9 feet. Flood stage for the river in Cincinnati is 52 feet.

Rainfall totals for the river cities were absurd. Just under 14 inches in Cincinnati. Almost 15 inches in Evansville, Indiana. Almost 20 inches in Louisville.

According to Enquirer archives, on Jan. 26, 1937 a fifth of the city of Cincinnati was under water and across the river conditions were worse, with about one-third of the river cities of Kenton and Campbell counties under water. Nearly one of every eight people in the Tristate were left homeless.

Reminder: November 11th is Veterans Day

NOVEMBER 15, 2017 Election of 2018 Officers and Trustees

Speaker: Mark Plageman of the Price Hill Historical Society

Visitors to the Price Hill Historical Society and Museum often ask about one resident who made his home in Price Hill for less than five years. But what a home it was! Almost a century after George Remus ran one of the most extensive bootlegging operations in the country from Cincinnati's west side, his name still has the ability to conjure up images of a gilt-edged mansion with a sleek modern swimming pool and other Jazz Age excesses. Why is the story of George Remus so fascinating? He used legal loopholes in the Volstead Act to make a fortune selling whiskey during Prohibition, he was ruthless and acted swiftly to protect his own interests, but he was widely known as a generous man who never forgot a friend or a favor, and he really knew how to throw a party. George Remus, for a few golden years, lived Gatsby's dream-he was the "King of the Bootleggers."

“Remembering Remus” books signed by Meyer and Hotchkiss will be on sale