in for mouth; _anti_, Greek for
opposite; and _ville_, French for town), but early in the next year
Symmes caused the present name to be substituted in honour of the Order
of the Cincinnati, General Arthur St Clair, the governor of the
North-West Territory, being then president of the Pennsylvania State
Society of the Cincinnati. St Clair arrived about the time the change in
name was made, immediately erected Hamilton County, and made Cincinnati
its seat of government; the territorial legislature also held its
sessions here from the time of its first organization in 1799 until
1801, when it removed to Chillicothe. During the early years the Indians
threatened the life of the settlement, and in 1789 Fort Washington, a
log building for protection against the Indians, was built in the city;
General Josiah Harmar, in 1790, and General St Clair, in 1791, made
unsuccessful expeditions against them, and the alarm increased until
1794, when General Wayne won a decisive victory over the savages at
Maumee Rapids in the battle of Fallen Timbers, after which he secured
their consent to the terms of the treaty of Greenville (1795).
Cincinnati was incorporated as a village in 1802, received a second
charter in 1815, was chartered as a city in 1819, and received its
second city charter in 1827 and its third in 1832; since 1851 it has
been governed nominally by general laws of the state, although by the
state's method of classifying cities many acts for its government have
been in reality special. When first incorporated its limits were
confined to an area of 3 sq. m., but by annexations in 1849 and 1850
this area was doubled; in 1854 another square mile was added; in 1869
and 1870 large additions were made, which included the villages of
Sedamsville, Price Hill, Walnut Hills, Mount Auburn, Clintonville,
Corryville, Vernon, Mount Harrison, Barrsville, Fairmount, West
Fairmount, St Peters, Lick Run and Clifton Heights; in 1872 Columbia,
which was settled a short time before Cincinnati, was added; in 1873
Cumminsville and Woodburn; in 1895 Avondale, Riverside, Clifton, Linwood
and Westwood; in 1903 Bond Hill, Winton Place, Hyde Park and Evanston;
in 1904 portions of Mill Creek township, and in 1905 a small tract in
Mill Creek Valley.

In 1829 Mrs Frances Trollope established in Cincinnati, where she lived
for a part of two years, a "Bazar," which as the principal means of
carrying out her plan to benefit the town was entirely unsuccessfu