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Past programs can be viewed on Delhi Township History channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChb5JoWtBVg1DjKA1pZDD9w
Dusty in the back row, 2nd from right, when he helped bring the Beatles to Cincinnati Gardens for a concert.
Walter Burton photo, provided by Bradley Wolf, via WVXU.org
The aftermath of the fatal Beverly Hills Supper Club fire which broke out
48 years ago in Northern Kentucky still resonates today.
Based on his book, The Beverly Hills Supper Club, the Untold Story of Kentucky’s Worst Tragedy, author Robert Webster reveals the hidden stories of corruption, deceit, organized crime, and cover-ups detailing what he calls "one of the worst cases of mass murder in U.S. history."
It came down to good versus evil in our home town.
Larry Flynt was more than a pornographer. His influence, and that of other criminal elements invading Cincinnati and Hamilton County, were corrupting the police and the culture of our community. The news media was manipulated by the mob to make the good guys look bad and the bad guys look good.
The fight to clean up Cincinnati in the 1960s and 1970s is something most of us don’t like to talk about. People born in the 1980s and later may not even know about it. But the battle for the soul of our home town should not be forgotten.
Journalist and historian PETE BRONSON reveals the truth behind it all
Monday June 9, 2025 at 7PM when he presents,
Not in Our Town, the Queen City vs the King of Smut.
Among the earliest towns on Cincinnati’s West Side, Sedamsville was a thriving community with its own mayor, town hall, fire department, marshal,
industries, amusement parks & resorts and other businesses.
Though sometimes forgotten today, Sedamsville’s influence on the growth and expansion of Cincinnati’s West Side should not be underestimated.
Knowing the history of Sedamsville is key to understanding our region. Sedamsville is so important to our history that the entire village was entered into the National Historic Register in 2012.
Rev. Jim Meade, retired priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, former pastor at Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish in Sedamsville, and native of Sedamsville, has been preserving and recording the history of this important town for decades. His years of work has been a labor of love. Jim will share the stories images of Sedamsville from yesterday and today, Monday September 8, 2025 at 7PM at the Delhi Community-Senior Center.
The Coney Island of the West, Cincinnati's premiere amusement park for decades, provided fun, happiness, and memories for generations of visitors.
For well over a century, Cincinnati's Coney Island was the source of fun, and summer jobs, for tens of thousands of people. As of December 2023, Coney Island will be no more. However, it lives on in the memories recorded in the new book,
To Coney, With Love,
written by Katy Mark and Rob Lowe.
Attend the program Monday March 10 at 7PM when Katy and Rob share photographs and memories of Cincinnati’s Coney Island at the Delhi Community-Senior Center, 647 Neeb Rd, Cincinnati Ohio 45233
Before Coney Island, there was Chester Park.
Its lake, rides, and attractions entertained Cincinnatians from the
horse-drawn carriage days into the Great Depression.
Find out how our grandparents and great-grandparents had outdoor fun
when historian Ray Grothaus presents the full story of Chester Park through words and pictures.
Monday February 10, 2025, 7PM at the Delhi Community-Senior Center, 647 Neeb Road.
Aerial view of the 1937 Ohio River flood inundating Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport.
Courtesy of the National Weather Service website
The Mount Adams incline
7:00 PM at the Delhi Community / Senior Center , 647 Neeb Road
This quaint family farm was also a very busy retail business.
One of the many subway tunnels beneath Cincinnati’s streets.
Tri-State Warbirds Museum owns and flies a P-51 Mustang, the supreme fighter plane of WWII.
Michael Morgan in an ancient beer cellar in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine district.
When he died in 1933, Richard Witterstaetter was known across the nation as The Carnation King. His success in creating and raising new varieties of flowers generated an estate which he shared with local charities.
Learn how Richard Witterstaetter became known as The Carnation King,
Monday September 11, 2023, 7:00 PM
presented as only a descendent can, by Joey Witterstaetter.
Richard Witterstaetter, circa 1903
Proceeds from sales of the book, “Cincinnati Police Stations, a Brief Illustrated History,” at the June 12, 2023 program go directly to the Delhi Historical Society!
Beer and baseball just go together. Learn how they fit hand-in-glove in Cincinnati’s ball parks through the years.
Explore the eccentric side of yesterday's Queen City. Cincinnatians today wrap themselves in a comforting blanket of serene conformity, soothed by the myth that the Queen City has always been a bland, somewhat Germanic, little backwater town. History tells us otherwise. Old Cincinnati was a pretty strange place. UFOs? Witchcraft? Sea Monsters? Occult societies? Public executions? Buckle up as author Greg Hand leads a rambunctious tour through the old, weird Cincinnati.
This program will be at the Delhi Senior & Community Center
647 Neeb Rd, Delhi, OH 45238
Restaurants, Drive-ins, Concert Halls and other favorite places of the past.
MORE INFO COMING SOON!
At the Delhi Community/Senior Center, 647 Neeb Rd
From family plots to church-based burial grounds to large cemeteries, Delhi Township’s history can be traced through the places we place our loved-one’s remains.
You know the buildings: Xavier University’s first administration building. The American Building on Central Parkway near Vine. Saint William Church in Price Hill and dozens more.
Don Heinrich Tolzmann’s book about the Roebling Bridge which connects Cincinnati and Covington.
Click on FREE SEAT or the link below it to reserve your seat at this once in a lifetime event!
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October 2022 is the centennial of the invention of Cincinnati style chili.
Learn how Cincinnati chili was created and how it has evolved into a Cincinnati staple
from the families who made it happen!
Johnny Kiradjieff of Empress Chili,
Joe Lambrinides of Skyline Chili, and
Roger Daoud of Gold Star Chili
will share personal stories, photos, and inside information that will
make chili history come to life.
This program will be held at Mount Saint Joseph University’s auditorium.
Tickets for this FREE EVENT must be reserved through MSJ’s ticketing system.
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Support for this amazing event comes, in part, from the
Mount Saint Joseph University,
Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, and
Give Back Cincinnati
Author, historian, and "Food etymologist" Dann Woellert will share the discoveries he made while writing his book, Cincinnati Wine, an Effervescent History. Get a taste of history which has its roots in Delhi Township and its neighbors. At the Delhi Park Lodge. Free and open to the public!
Supported in part by Ohio History Connection’s “Ohio Open Doors,” project for 2022!
Lynn Gottmann shares her experiences that led to her writing the book, “Walking Alone With the Paranormal.”
From spirits in her son’s bedroom to being followed in cemeteries, Gottmann has walked with the paranormal for decades. Attend this captivating program and you will believe.
Andrew Houghtaling of The Ninth Ohio: A Living History shares the history of food our ancestors ate as they defended they Union in the Civil War. May 9, Delhi Lodge, 7 PM. FREE!
Shop in person Thursday, 12-4 p.m., Friday, 4-8 p.m., and Saturday, 10 am-3 pm. Flowers are $4.75 each in 3 and 4 inch pots.
Learn about Lee Witterstaetter and his remarkable life April 11 at the Delhi Park Lodge when historian and videographer Joey Witterstaetter presents the world premier of his latest video, “Lee Witterstaetter - The West Side Natural.”
Join the Delhi Historical Society in welcoming Alyssa McClanahan as she discusses her new book, Findlay Market of Cincinnati a History, Monday March 14, 2022, at 7:00 PM at the Delhi Park Lodge on Foley Road.
Gathering personal stories Findlay Market’s merchants, historian Alyssa McClanahan shines a light on the past of this beloved Queen City institution to reveal its place in local and American urban history.
Ms. McClanahan is a PhD-trained historian who works as an independent scholar and researcher, publishing articles and books in modern US history.
Dining in Delhi
Family Dining In and Around Delhi Township in the 19th and 20th Centuries exhibition, 2022-2024
Schools of Delhi
Two Hundred Years of Education in Delhi Township exhibition, 2021-2022
ROOTS
The Stories and People That Built Delhi exhibition, 2019-2021
