Cincinnati

“The Queen of the West,” Cincinnati is one of America’s leading historical food cities. Its location at the junction of the Licking and Ohio Rivers, near abundant forests and blue grasslands, made Cincinnati ideally situated to become the manufacturing center and entrepôt of the Ohio Valley. Founded in 1789 on lands purchased from the Continental Congress, the city was given its name by an Ohio governor in honor of George Washington (“the American Cincinnatus”) and a political society organized under the same name. Cincinnati grew rapidly in the nineteenth century, becoming a major economic and cultural center within a tri-state greater metropolitan area of about 2.1 million.