We all spent the morning in the Cincinnati History Museum. The current main exhibit is transportation in Cincinnati, with a fantastic scale model of the streetcars in the city of the 1940s. In my soon-to-be-released book Ninety Day Wonder, Gene Sinclair passes through Cincinnati, is delayed, and watches a baseball game at the stadium close to the train station. The train station in question is now the Cincinnati Museum Center. Both the station and the stadium are shown as they were when he came through.
Other exhibits showed boats that were used as ferries, like the one my third great grandfather captained across the Ohio River in the 1830s. Downstairs in the museum was a lifesize exhibit showing the public landing in early Cincinnati. We enjoyed walking around on the Queen of the West, a riverboat, and visited the dress shop, printers. a German beer parlor, a boarding house, and an early photoshop owned by James Presly Ball, a free black and abolitionist.
I returned to the museum library to research St. Clair for the afternoon, where I was able to copy a number of family letters, and one from the Shawnee Chiefs to Governor St. Clair, complaining that his good friends the Chickasaw were causing them distress and asking him to do something about them. The letter from the Chiefs was the most legible of all of them, and based on the signatures appeared to have been written by one of the Chiefs.
I managed to finish looking at all the records the librarians were able to locate, other than the ones that are online and I can read later. That gives me the opportunity to spend tomorrow on genealogy research of my relatives who lived in the area, particularly the Doxons and Nolans who seem to have appeared out of nowhere in Ohio in the early 1800s.
