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View of Lunken Airport and Ohio River
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The Frederick H. Alms Memorial Park lies on Mt. Tusculum with its magnificent vantage point overlooking the broad Ohio River, a point originally called "Bald" Hill because the Indians had cleared the trees from its summit to have an unobstructed view of the early settlers of "Columbia." This little community was situated along the river and directly below "Bald" Hill, on which now stands the Alms Park shelter building.
This hilltop park was given to the Park Board in 1916 as a memorial to Frederick H. Alms by his wife. The land was once owned by Nicholas Longworth, who produced his famous Catawba wine there before the Civil War. The entrance to his underground wine cellar can still be seen to the northeast of the park’s pavilion.
Parcels of park property were purchased with funds provided by the Alms estate, until the park was composed of its present 93.7 acres. From its heights, one can see the juncture of the Little Miami River with the gigantic bend of the Ohio, the hills of Kentucky, Lunken Airport, and the panoramic valleys.
www.cincinnati.com/visitorsguide/parks/041400_alms.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Municipal_Lunken_Airport
Cincinnati Municipal Airport – Lunken Field or Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport (IATA: LUK, ICAO: KLUK, FAA LID: LUK) is a public airport in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, located three miles (5 km) southeast of Downtown Cincinnati. It is owned by the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. The airport serves private aircraft and the fleets of most local corporations. It is commonly known as Lunken Airport or Lunken Field, after Eshelby Lunken.
When the original 1000-acre (4 km²) airfield was dedicated in 1925, it was the largest municipal airfield in the world. American Airlines started at Lunken Airport during this time, but no major commercial airlines use it anymore. Instead, many large Cincinnati-area companies now base their corporate aircraft there.
Lunken Airport was supplanted by the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1937 following catastrophic flooding from the Ohio River. The flooding problem prompted the airport’s nickname of "Sunken Lunken". The control tower, located at the southwest corner of the airport, was almost totally submerged during the historic Ohio River flood of 1937, and now has a single black brick facing the airfield to indicate the high-water mark.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed at Lunken Airport and was mobbed by well-wishers. In 1964, a large crowd of fans greeted The Beatles as they flew in to and out of Lunken for their concert at Crosley Field. On October 30, 2007, Air Force One landed at Lunken as President George W. Bush visited abutting Cincinnati neighborhood Hyde Park for a fund-raiser for Republican Congressman Steve Chabot. On October 22, 2008 Republican Presidential candidate Arizona Senator John McCain and vice-presidential candidate Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin spoke to an enthusiatic crowd of 12,000 in hangar A-10.
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