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Title: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Ford, Henry A., comp Ford, Kate B., joint comp Williams, L.A. & co., Cleveland, O., pub
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Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, L. A. Williams
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s an old es-tablished boarding-school for girls and young ladies.The school is under the charge of the Sisters of Charity,who are a branch of the original order founded in thebeginning of this century at Emmettsburgh, Maryland,and who still follow the rules and retain the costume andvenerable traditions of their foundress. The buildingsare delightfully situated on an elevation remarkable forbeauty and variety of scenery, and commanding a charm-ing view of the surrounding country. The grounds,which are greatly undulating and tastefully laid out, in-clude some fifty-four acres, in the centre of which, on arising plateau, stands the main building of the academy,a brick structure, four stories high, erected in the year1858. To the west, is the chapel, built in 1875, and ad-joining this, the Sisters convent, an old building, which,previous to the year 1857, had been the residence ofMr. Alderson. This venerable mansion has acquired adegree of literary celebrity, owing to its having been the
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MOUNT ST, VINCENT ACADEMY, (CEDAR GROVE,) CINCINNATI, OHIO, HISTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO. 301 home of Our Cousins in Ohio, who are described in astory bearing that title, written by Mary Howett andpubhshed in England. The homestead, including thirty-three acres of land, was purchased by the Sisters March3, 1857. From Mr. Alderson it had received the desig-nation of The Cedars, which the Sisters, on cominginto possession of the place, changed into Cedar Grove.The academy, built in the following year, was called Mt.St. Vincent, but Cedar Grove is still the more familiarname, dear to the hearts of hundreds who have beeneducated within its walls and still lovingly cherish itsmemories. The sisters having charge of the academy aim at giv-ing young ladies a thorough education in all branches ofuseful and polite learning, with which they endeavor tocombine the sympathetic care, the assiduous watchful-ness, the comforts and the genial influences of home-life,so essential to the proper trai

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