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There were 148,095 households out of which 25.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.6% were married couples living together, 18.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 51.0% were non-families. 42.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The avg household size was 2.15 and the avg family size was 3.02.

Cincinnati is considered to have been the first major US boomtown rapidly enlargeing in the heart of the country in the early nineteenth century to rival the bigger coastal cities in size and wealth. As the first major inland city in the country, it is sometimes thought of as the first purely US city, lacking the heavy European influence that was present on the east coast. However, by the end of the century, Cincinnati`s growth had slowed considerably, and the city was surpassed in populus by many other inland cities.

Cincinnati is home to the Cincinnati Reds (the first professional baseball team), the Cincinnati Bengals (the NFL team), the Cincinnati Tennis Club (the oldest tennis tournament in the US played in its original city),and the Thanksgiving day race (the second oldest race in the country-- after the Boston marathon). The city is also home to one of the oldest universities in the country the University of Cincinnati

In 1790, Arthur St. Clair, the governor of the Northwest Territory, changed the name of the settlement to "Cincinnati" in honor of the Society of the Cincinnati, of which he was a member. The society honored General George Washington, who was considered a latter day Cincinnatus -- the Roman general who saved his city, then retired from power to his farm. To this day, Cincinnati in particular, and Ohio in general, are home to a disproportionately large number of descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers who were granted lands in the state.

In 1802, Cincinnati was chartered as a village and David Ziegler (1748-1811), a Revolutionary War veteran from Heidelberg, Germany, became the first mayor. Cincinnati was incorporated as a city in 1819. The introduction of steam navigation on the Ohio River in 1811 and the completion of the Miami and Erie Canal helped the city grow to 115,000 citizens by 1850.

Railroads were the next major form of transportation to come to Cincinnati. In 1836, the Little Miami Railroad was chartered. Construction began soon after, with the purpose of connecting Cincinnati with the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, and thus the ports of the Sandusky Bay.