Camp Washington, Cincinnati

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Camp Washington is a residential neighborhood located in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, home to the award-winning Cincinnati chili parlor, Camp Washington Chili. During the U.S.-Mexican War Camp Washington was an important military location, training five-thousand, five-hundred and thirty-six soldiers who went to war. This neighborhood is also the location of the old Cincinnati Workhouse (designed by Samuel Hannaford), which was destroyed and rebuilt to serve as a drug rehab for felons.[1][2][3]

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  1. ^ Grace, Kevin; Tom White (2002). Cincinnati Revealed: A Photographic History of the Queen City. Arcadia Publishing, p. 16. ISBN 0738519553. 
  2. ^ King, Rufus (1903). Ohio: First Fruits of the Ordinance of 1787. Houghton Mifflin, p. 362. 
  3. ^ Camp Washington. CincinnatiHome.com.
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