This stone column is from a building that stood at this
location in the 1840s. The building was at the corner of
Water Street and Vine Street. A series of different
businesses occupied the site over the years. The Simmons
Milling Company was in this building in 1904.

Water Street was the southernmost street in early
Cincinnati, located where the park's Water Street
Esplanade was built. The Esplanade, linking the Vine
Street Water Garden to the area under the Roebling
Bridge, follows the same path as Water Street did. The
uncovered when the park's Great Lawn
being built and it is a reminder of the city's early
was
stone was
development and rapid growth on the banks of the
Ohio River.

The Vine Street address of the building
was West
Vine since Vine Street became the centerline dividing
east from west street addresses. And since Water Street
was the southernmost street in the city, the building
was #1 Vine.

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