Bicycling Through Paradise

Kathleen Smythe is an avid cyclist and a professor of history at Xavier University.Chris Hanlin is an architect, amateur historian, photographer, and longtime cyclist.

Easy to navigate. A novel concept and format. This book is a great excuse to ride in a new place. (Joe Humpert, president of Queen City Bike and founding member of Licking Valley Velo)

• Introduction Cycling Advice Part I: Waterways 1. Path Dependency: Layers of History along the Mill Creek Northside, Ivorydale, Elmwood Place, and Lockland 2. William Henry Harrison and the Shawnee Nation The Ohio River Valley West to Harrison’s Tomb, Shawnee Lookout, and Indiana3. Visions and Dreams on the Little Miami Scenic Trail From Milford to Xenia via Loveland Castle, Kings’ Mills, and George Barrett’s Concrete House 4. Floodplains and HilltopsEden and Ault Parks, Cincinnati Observatory, Pioneer Settlement and Lunken Airport 5. Following the River: The Story of Mary InglesAlexandria and Bellevue, Kentucky6. Swimming Pools, Parks, and the Integration of Coney Island7. The Whitewater Canal Route Indiana from West Harrison to Cedar Grove, Brookville, and Metamora Part II: Paradise8. Bicycling Through Paradise Mariemont, Perintown, Harmony Hill, Felicity, and Utopia9. The Party Tour: Breweries and Inclines Amusements Past and Present in Over-The-Rhine10. Town and Country Mt. Airy Forest, Winton Woods, Greenhills, Glendale and Sharon Woods 11. A Holy City: Churches, synagogues, and ShrinesNorthern Kentucky, Downtown Cincinnati, Walnut Hills and Evanston12. Immortality and its Consequences Spring Grove, College Hill, Fernald Preserve, and Whitewater Shaker Village 13. Immortality, Continued Hamilton, the Hollow Earth Monument, Chrisholm Farmstead, and Miamisburg Mound Part III: Big Ideas14. Homeland Insecurity Military Installations from Fort Washington to Newport Barracks to Fort Thomas, Kentucky 15. People, Animals, Water, and Salt Anderson Ferry, Burlington, Kentucky, Rabbit Hash and Big Bone Lick 16. Building a Nation’s Soil: The Civilian Conservation Corps Big Bone Lick and Walton, Kentucky 17. Black Community Leadership in Madisonville 18. Crosstown Missions Xavier University, University of Cincinnati, and Hebrew Union College 19. Art Deco Architecture Lunken Airport, Downtown, Union Terminal, and the Mt. Washington Water Tower 20. Industry, Rustbelt, and Re-development Norwood, Oakley, and Madisonville