North College Hill is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 9,663 at the 2020 census. Located about 10 miles (16 km) north of downtown Cincinnati, the city takes its name from its proximity to the Cincinnati neighborhood of College Hill (formerly Pleasant Hill), which borders it to the south.
At a Glance
- County: Hamilton County
- State: Ohio
History of North College Hill
One of the first easterners to survey the area was John Cleves Symmes, a judge and former Congressman from New Jersey, after whom Symmes Township is named. Symmes visited the area in 1787 and received tentative permission from the new Federal government to purchase a section of land between the Little Miami and Great Miami Rivers. This tract became known as the “Symmes Purchase” or “Miami Purchase” and extended south to the Ohio River.
Several of the pioneers who migrated across the midwest to claim a part of Symmes’ tract are buried in North College Hill’s oldest landmark, the LaBoiteaux Cary cemetery. Established in approximately 1806, the cemetery includes the graves of two Revolutionary War veterans and several members of the Cary family. The last burial in the cemetery was in 1860.
In 1813 to 14, William Cary, having migrated from New Hampshire to Cincinnati in 1802, purchased 491 acres (1.99 km) north of Cincinnati along what is now Hamilton Avenue (U.S. Route 127). Cary built a log cabin and moved his family to this “wilderness,” then known as Mill Creek Township.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article North College Hill, Ohio, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.