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Murder, Mystery, Buried History
The latest book from Peter Bronson, author of popular regional best-sellers about Cincinnati’s exciting history. Magical History Tour is a collection of 5 short stories and 10 places to visit and discover local history.
· In 1878, Cincinnati was shocked and revolted by a ghoulish crime: Graverobbers took the son of a former president from his fresh grave in North Bend. Detectives found the body hanging in a pit at the Ohio Medical College.
· In 1850, a young man from Wilmington, Ohio set off to join the Gold Rush in California. He named a city (Denver) and a state (Montana), tamed “Bleeding Kansas” before the Civil War, and fought at the Battle of Corinth. Yet few today even know about him.
· Two young women died in a Cincinnati hotel room in 1877 after they were banished from the Whitewater Shaker Village north of Harrison. What happened to them? Was it suicide? Or murder? Why did the thriving, prosperous Society of Shakers vanish?
· The first woman in Ohio to be executed in the electric chair was a serial killer in Cincinnati. The “Black Widow” murders of lonely, elderly victims is one of the most chilling stories of heartless cruelty in local history.
· In 2008, a group of Kentucky lawyers went on trial in the Covington federal courthouse, and Cincinnati’s “Master of Disaster” got stuck in the litigation tarpit that was the downfall of one of the most famous tort lawyers in the nation.
PLUS: Ten Places to Discover Cincinnati History: The earliest cemeteries, log cabins, a Civil War camp and small museums with big stories to tell.
Murder, Mystery, Buried History
The latest book from Peter Bronson, author of popular regional best-sellers about Cincinnati’s exciting history. Magical History Tour is a collection of 5 short stories and 10 places to visit and discover local history.
· In 1878, Cincinnati was shocked and revolted by a ghoulish crime: Graverobbers took the son of a former president from his fresh grave in North Bend. Detectives found the body hanging in a pit at the Ohio Medical College.
· In 1850, a young man from Wilmington, Ohio set off to join the Gold Rush in California. He named a city (Denver) and a state (Montana), tamed “Bleeding Kansas” before the Civil War, and fought at the Battle of Corinth. Yet few today even know about him.
· Two young women died in a Cincinnati hotel room in 1877 after they were banished from the Whitewater Shaker Village north of Harrison. What happened to them? Was it suicide? Or murder? Why did the thriving, prosperous Society of Shakers vanish?
· The first woman in Ohio to be executed in the electric chair was a serial killer in Cincinnati. The “Black Widow” murders of lonely, elderly victims is one of the most chilling stories of heartless cruelty in local history.
· In 2008, a group of Kentucky lawyers went on trial in the Covington federal courthouse, and Cincinnati’s “Master of Disaster” got stuck in the litigation tarpit that was the downfall of one of the most famous tort lawyers in the nation.
PLUS: Ten Places to Discover Cincinnati History: The earliest cemeteries, log cabins, a Civil War camp and small museums with big stories to tell.