50 Things You Probably Did Not Know About Cincinnati!

1. Graeter’s Ice Cream was founded here in 1870 and is still a local favorite for handmade treats and baked goods.

3. Cincinnati’s original name was Losantiville after the Licking River. The name Losantiville means “opposite of the mouth of the river.”

4. Along with The Queen City, Cincinnati has been called Porkopolis. The name dates back to the 1820s through the 1930s when Cincinnati was the main pork processing center in the country.

5. The Cincinnati Red Stockings (later the Reds) became the first professional baseball team in 1869 with a total of 10 players.

6. They were also the first team to travel to another city by airplane.

7. As the first baseball team, the Cincinnati Reds always open the season at home.

8. The Reds have won five World Series, 10 pennants and 15 playoff appearances.

9. When it was completed in 1867, the Roebling Suspension Bridge was the longest of its kind worldwide and was the prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge.

10. Its location on the Ohio River just across from Kentucky (which was a slave state) meant Cincinnati was a crucial stop on the Underground Railroad to freedom.

11. The Emmy-winning 1970s show WKRP in Cincinnati featured life at a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati.

12. The first man to walk on the moon was Cincinnati native Neil Armstrong, putting the city on the intergalactic map forever.