. Suburban homes along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R. R . zens of this old and pretty town. Well, indeed, was it its slowest train it is only an hour and fifteen minutes from thecity, by its fastest only fifty minutes. Not a few of the prominentbusiness and professional men of the city have their homes here—andbeautiful ones they are—content to spend both time and money becausethey can find here a refuge from the discomforts of the city in whichtheir business hfe is spent. Business in the city, a home in the country—this is their ideal of hfe. Is it not a good one ?
. Suburban homes along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R. R . zens of this old and pretty town. Well, indeed, was it its slowest train it is only an hour and fifteen minutes from thecity, by its fastest only fifty minutes. Not a few of the prominentbusiness and professional men of the city have their homes here—andbeautiful ones they are—content to spend both time and money becausethey can find here a refuge from the discomforts of the city in whichtheir business hfe is spent. Business in the city, a home in the country—this is their ideal of hfe. Is it not a good one ? The history of the town runs back a good way into the past. Therecord of surveys begins with the 27th of May, 1788, and the comingantiquarian will find little difficulty in following the ever-widening cur-rent of events, by means of transfers of property and land can go as far back as 1794, when Col. Ramsey, who led the ad-vance guard of Mad Anthony Waynes army, settled here. His wasthe first house built between the Litde Miami and Scioto rivers. The lO. little settlementgrew, and at last,in 1847, theyarrived at thedignity of a storestarted and keptby Mr. JamesLoveland, aftertown was named. whom the On the 16th of May, 1876, thelimits of the town were extendedby vote of the commissionersof Clermont County, so as totake in portions of Hamiltonand Miami Counties, and thefirst election of the present vill-age was held on May 29th ofUp Hill on the B, & 0. S. W. tj^^t year. From that time on the town began to improve, streets were putin good condition, new houses to spring up, and the attractions of theplace to be understood. The town has three churches, a Presbyteriana Methodist and a Catholic. In West Loveland, just across the LittleMiami, is a colored Baptist chnrch. There are two schools. The HighSchool, lately built at a cost of $8000, stands on Loveland Heights*The other school is in West Loveland, and is a handsome village has a steam fire depar
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