. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. of the company, that all re-ceipts above original cost of land and expenses should bedevoted to public improvement—as parks, an artificiallake and the like. The lake was made with comparativeease, by constructing a dam three hundred feet long justbelow some springs, whereby a beautiful sheet of watercovering four acres and having a depth in places ofseventeen feet, was created. An hotel was presentlyerected for summer boarders, but its early patronage didnot equal expectations, and it was sold to the Junctionrail
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. of the company, that all re-ceipts above original cost of land and expenses should bedevoted to public improvement—as parks, an artificiallake and the like. The lake was made with comparativeease, by constructing a dam three hundred feet long justbelow some springs, whereby a beautiful sheet of watercovering four acres and having a depth in places ofseventeen feet, was created. An hotel was presentlyerected for summer boarders, but its early patronage didnot equal expectations, and it was sold to the Junctionrailroad company by whom it was conveyed to the Covert, who founded therein the American Femalecollege. Three pretty little parks were laid off and im-proved in different parts of the village. A neat publicschool building, a one-story brick with four rooms, wasput up in due time. The avenues were staked off inbeautiful and symmetrical curves, and are generally sixtyfeet in width. Sharon avenue, upon which the road toSharon, in Sycamore township, passes straight through. GEORGE W. WALKER. HISTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO. 377 the place, is eighty feet wide. Colonel Maxwell, in hisadmirable book on the suburbs of Cincinnati, says: Whichever way the stranger takes, he is constantly impressed withthe thought that he has made a mistal<e; and whatever point he at-tains is certain to be one unlool<ed for. This is the more embarrassingto the visitor, who asks in vain for the names of avenues that appearneither upon guideboards, or at Avondale. nor in the minds of the in-habitants, who feel no necessity of troubling themselves cencerning themazes of thoroughfares with which time has made them thoroughly fa-miliar. A better acquaintance, however, removes the annoyance, anda score of visits demonstrate quite clearly how study unravels the mostintricate ways. Several additions have been made to the village platsince it was first laid out, and the Glendale Building andLoan asso
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