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The Cincinnati subway: exploring the subterranean queen city.

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| June 22, 1994 | Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz | COPYRIGHT 1994 American Geographical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Written on the water drums in orange stencilled letters were instructions for 'reuse as a commode.'

Beneath the ultra-respectable streets of Cincinnati, Ohio lies a half-formed subway system, an echoing, dripping monument to century-old urban planning. With a bit of historical background to light the way, we will follow a group of intrepid explorers into this urban cave.

By the mid-1880s, the Miami and Erie Canal was a stagnant and dangerous relic of an outmoded form of transport; Cincinnati needed a rapid transit system to bring people in and out of the city from its rapidly-growing suburbs. Following decades of debate and fund-raising, by 1920 the canal was ...

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