. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. illiams, executors of the will of BenjaminHey. PENDLETON. Also an old village, but more considerable, lying be-tween the hills and the river, from Fulton to SportsmansHall or the East End garden. The Delta station, onthe Little Miami railroad, and the termini of the Colum-bia and Mount Lookout dummy railroads, are at thelatter point. LEWISTON was a former village in Spencer township, laid out in1828 by William Lewis. It is now included in the Sev-enteenth ward of the city. UNDERCLIFF AND RUSSELLs are stations and
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. illiams, executors of the will of BenjaminHey. PENDLETON. Also an old village, but more considerable, lying be-tween the hills and the river, from Fulton to SportsmansHall or the East End garden. The Delta station, onthe Little Miami railroad, and the termini of the Colum-bia and Mount Lookout dummy railroads, are at thelatter point. LEWISTON was a former village in Spencer township, laid out in1828 by William Lewis. It is now included in the Sev-enteenth ward of the city. UNDERCLIFF AND RUSSELLs are stations and suburban villages on the Little Miamirailroad, between Columbia and Red Bank. TURKEY BOTTOM. This is a notable track of about one and a half squaremiles, between the Little Miami river and Columbia. Itwas found by the first settlers already cleared, for themost part, by the long cultivation of the Indians, andvery likely also of the Mound Builders; but still exceed-ingly fertile. From nine acres of it planted by JudgeGoforth during the first season of white occupancy, nine Jl. (y. HISTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO. 359 hundred and sixty-three bushels of corn were raised ; andCaptain Benjamin Davis realized a crop of one hundredand fourteen bushels from one acre. There is also a tra-dition that Benjamin Randolph, having planted a singleacre with corn and then compelled to visit New Jersey,came back in the fall and found one hundred bushels ofcorn, witiiout any attention meanwhile, ready for his in-gathering. Major Stites was its first owner, and leased itout in good-sized lots—unmarked by divisions—to six ofthe colonists, for terms of five years. The first cultiva-tion of it by the whites had to be done under guard, toprotect against Indian surprise. It was almost the soleColumbia cornfield of 1789 and 90, and was the favoriteresort of the women and children, for procuring the root for fuel. In the matter of the fertility of the Columbia region,an extrav
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