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44-583: In 1883, the Cincinnati Water Works wanted to extend its efficient water supply main tunnel (which had remained incomplete for several years) 185 feet to the line at Gilbert Avenue. This efficient main started at the reservoir in Eden Park. To control the flow of water at the base of the steep hill, a valve house was needed. Because the Water Works wanted to enhance the landscape of the park, plus they wanted

88-635: A battlemented archway. Since the Cincinnati Art Museum officially opened in 1886, a flight of Cincinnati steps were placed behind the Elsinore Tower as a short cut to the museum in Eden Park . However, the steps were too steep to ever become popular; and with the ever-increasing prevalence of motorized travel, the Elsinore Tower soon lost its appeal as an entrance to the Park. As of 1988, it was reported that

132-692: A home in Cincinnati and a farm in southern Warren County. In 1853, he appeared in California as an early acting pioneer for that region. A visit to England in 1856 led to an engagement at the Haymarket Theatre that lasted for over one hundred consecutive nights. During the American Civil War , Murdoch was unable to actively serve in the war. His son's enlistment, though, led him to halt his acting career in order to give public performances that supported

176-478: A household in the county was $ 57,952, and the median income for a family was $ 64,692. Males had a median income of $ 47,027 versus $ 30,862 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 25,517. About 3.00% of families and 4.20% of the population were below the poverty line , including 4.40% of those under age 18 and 4.70% of those age 65 or over. As of the 2010 United States Census , there were 212,693 people, 76,424 households, and 57,621 families residing in

220-520: A newspaper illustration of the Elsinore stage set. What resulted was that Charles B. Hannaford, the son of Samuel, was commissioned to design the valve house in the form of Elsinore Castle. The Elsinore Tower was built later that year for a cost of $ 15,000. What resulted is the Norman Romanesque Revival mini-castle consisting of a cylindrical castellated tower joined to a smaller square tower by

264-522: A scenic train that runs between Lebanon and Mason. Freight trains still serve Carlisle, and on a limited basis, Monroe, Mason, and Lebanon. Historically, there have been several trains that ran through the county whose stops became cities and villages. These trains include the Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway , the Middletown and Cincinnati Railroad , and the Little Miami Railroad whose path

308-487: A structure that would also serve as a new entrance to the park, they felt that the valve house needed to have a special design. That spring, Cincinnati was host to the Shakespearean Dramatic Festival at Music Hall. The highlight of the festival was the performance of "Hamlet" on Friday evening, May 4. The Shakespearean actor James Edward Murdoch played the role of Hamlet. Even at the age of 72, this actor

352-658: A teachers college, was in Lebanon from 1855 until 1917 when it closed. Several colleges offer classes in Warren County at various locations, including Sinclair Community College of Dayton, the University of Cincinnati , and Wilmington College . Sinclair opened a branch in the Mason area in 2007. The University of Cincinnati owns 398 acres (1.61 km ) of land at the intersections of I-71 and Wilmington road, but no plans for development on

396-672: A total of 2,800 employees at the site. Mason is also home to the corporate headquarters of LensCrafters . According to the county's 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the county are: Warren County has a 3-member Board of County Commissioners that administer and oversee the various County departments, similar to all but 2 of the 88 Ohio counties. The original county commissioners in 1804 were Robert Benham , Matthias Corwin and William James. The elected commissioners now serve four-year terms. Warren County's current elected commissioners are: The following post offices, with ZIP codes, serve Warren County: These are

440-468: Is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery , Cincinnati. Warren County, Ohio Warren County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio . As of the 2020 census , the population was 242,337. Its county seat is Lebanon and largest city is Mason . The county is one of Ohio's most affluent, with the highest median income of the state's 88 counties. The county

484-493: Is home to the Mason Business Center, a 2-million-square-foot (0.19 km ) research and development facility for Procter and Gamble (P&G), whose global headquarters are located in downtown Cincinnati . Originally built in 1995 after three years of construction, P&G recently completed expansion of a new 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m ) Beauty and Innovation Center in 2019, adding an additional 1,000 jobs for

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528-461: Is land and 6.0 square miles (16 km ) (1.5%) is water. The county is a rough square with the sides about 20 miles (32 km) long. Warren County was created by the first Ohio General Assembly in the Act of March 24, 1803, which also created Butler and Montgomery Counties. The act defined Warren County as "all that part of the county of Hamilton included within the following bounds, viz.: Beginning at

572-617: Is now replaced by the Little Miami Bike Trail . There have been proposals to run commuter trains from Cincinnati to the Kings Island area, but none have ever found sufficient support or funding. There is no public bus transportation based in Warren County, but there is limited service from Cincinnati to Mason and Kings Island. Middletown also runs bus service to eastern portions of Middletown that are in Warren County. There are no commercially navigable waterways in Warren County, but

616-630: Is owned by the county. The county leases a public terminal, but other facilities are privately owned and operated under contract by a Fixed-base operator . The airport serves general and business aviation, but has no commercial airlines. There are also two privately owned operating airports in the county; Waynesville airport, also known as Red Stewart Field (40I), and Caesar Creek Gliderport (2OH9), both with grass runways. Operations have ceased at two former private paved runway airports, Brownie's Lebanon Airport (19I), and Lebanon San Mar Gale (OH79). Warren County does not have passenger train service except for

660-838: The Star-Press in Springboro, was owned by the parent of the Middletown Journal and the Dayton Daily News , Cox Media Group. Other weeklies include the Franklin Chronicle . For a time in the mid-1990s, Lebanon was the home of commercial radio station WMMA-FM , begun by Mike and Marilyn McMurray in 1994. The McMurrays sold to what was then known as American Radio Systems License Corp. a Boston -based chain of stations which also owned Cincinnati stations WGRR-FM and WKRQ (both since sold to various other owners). The new owners moved

704-671: The Warren County Canal did operate in the 19th century as a branch of the Miami and Erie Canal , bringing freight to Lebanon by canal boat . Recreationally, the Little Miami River can be traveled by canoe or kayak for its length through the county, and motorized boating can be done at Caesar's Creek Lake. The Journal-News circulates in Franklin , Springboro , Lebanon , and Turtlecreek Township . The Dayton Daily News , circulates in

748-493: The 20th century. In 1976, two of the three county commission seats were won by Democrats, and as late as the 1990s, local elections between Democrats and Republicans frequently remained competitive. However, with the massive expansion of Warren County's population in the 1990s, the county turned as solidly Republican at the local level as it already was at other levels, with Republicans typically running unopposed. In elections between 1996 and 2012, in which eight county offices were on

792-703: The Great and Little Miamis, the sides are all straight lines. The major rivers of the county are the Great Miami River , which flows through the northwest corner of the county in Franklin Township , and the Little Miami River which zig-zags across the county from north to south. There is one sizable lake, the Caesars Creek Reservoir , created by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam on Caesars Creek in

836-452: The Union's efforts. The proceeds raised from his public reading were used to aid wounded soldiers, while his reading selections — such as Joseph Drake's "American Flag" — were designed to invoke a sense of patriotism. He was so successful as a public platform reader that President Lincoln personally requested his performance of an anonymous poem criticizing dishonorable peace in 1864. After the war,

880-584: The ballot, no Democrat even filed. In November 1999, the last elected Democrat to hold office in Warren County, a member of the Educational Service Center (county school board), lost her seat to a Republican. School districts include: Non-geographic districts include: Warren County has no native colleges or universities, but was the original site selected for Miami University which instead located in Oxford, Ohio in 1809. National Normal University ,

924-637: The better in 1845 when he played the role of Hamlet at Park Theater, New York . For years afterward, he was considered the best performer of Hamlet on the American stage. For the next fifteen years he played a variety of roles and became a leading light on the American stage. He co-authored a work titled, Orthophony; or the Cultivation of the Voice, in Elocution in 1847. In 1850, Murdoch relocated to southern Ohio, buying

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968-456: The constitution. One of them, the Act of January 30, 1815, detached a strip of land from the eastern side to give to Clinton. That would have left Warren under four hundred square miles (1,036 km ), so a portion of Butler County (the part of Franklin Township where Carlisle is now located) was attached to Warren in compensation. The 1815 act was as follows: Except for the sections formed by

1012-849: The county's vote. In 2008, Warren County cast the largest net vote for John McCain of any Ohio county. Before the Republican Party was formed, Warren County supported the Whigs . The Republican trend is no less pronounced at the state level. Since 1869, Warren County has almost always supported the Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio , the exceptions being in 1924 when it supported Vic Donahey , 1932 ( George White ), 1952 ( Frank Lausche ), and 1958 ( Michael V. DiSalle ). However, other than DiSalle, each of these four Democrats, who were all victorious statewide, were conservative Democrats. In local races, Warren County occasionally elected Democrats for much of

1056-400: The county. The population density was 530.0 inhabitants per square mile (204.6/km ). There were 80,750 housing units at an average density of 201.2 per square mile (77.7/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 90.5% white, 3.9% Asian, 3.3% black or African American, 0.2% American Indian, 0.7% from other races, and 1.5% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 2.2% of

1100-544: The election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln received 60% of the vote in Warren County, and in 1864 he was reelected with 70% of the vote in the county. From that time on the county was a stronghold of the Republican party, with Ulysses S. Grant going on to carry the county by large margins in both 1868 and 1872. According to the United States Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 407 square miles (1,050 km ), of which 401 square miles (1,040 km )

1144-471: The ghost of his father. A local artist named Merry painted this stage set. In the audience that night was Water Works Superintendent A.G. Moore. He was so impressed with the painting of Elsinore Castle that that next Monday morning he appeared at the offices of Samuel Hannaford and Sons (famous local architectural firm that designed, among other structures, Music Hall and the Cincinnati City Hall) with

1188-506: The most Republican counties in Ohio, and has been since the party was established in the 1850s. Since the first presidential election after its founding, 1856, Warren County has supported the Republican candidate for president all but once, the exception being 1964 when Warren County voted for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson over Barry M. Goldwater . Jimmy Carter is the only other Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win as much as 40 percent of

1232-588: The northeast corner of the county of Clermont, running thence west with the line of said county to the Little Miami ; thence up the same with the meanders thereof to the north boundary of the first tier of sections in the second entire range of townships in the Miami Purchase ; thence west to the northeast corner of Section No. 7 in the third township of the aforesaid range; thence north to the Great Miami ; thence up

1276-653: The northeast part of the county in Massie Township . As of the census of 2000, there were 158,383 people, 55,966 households, and 43,261 families residing in the county. The population density was 396 inhabitants per square mile (153/km ). There were 58,692 housing units at an average density of 147 per square mile (57/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 94.66% White , 2.73% Black or African American , 0.18% Native American , 1.26% Asian , 0.03% Pacific Islander , 0.31% from other races , and 0.84% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.03% of

1320-597: The northern part of the county. The Cincinnati Enquirer circulates through most of the county while the Cincinnati Post abandoned all distribution in the county in 2004. Among its weekly papers was The Western Star , the oldest weekly in the state and the oldest newspaper west of the Appalachians published under its original name. It was closed on January 17, 2013. The Star, like the Pulse-Journal in Mason and

1364-401: The population. There were 55,966 households, out of which 39.70% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.20% were married couples living together, 8.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.70% were non-families. 18.90% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

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1408-443: The population. In terms of ancestry, 28.7% were German , 14.1% were Irish , 12.0% were English , 11.6% were American , and 5.0% were Italian . Of the 76,424 households, 40.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.6% were married couples living together, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 24.6% were non-families, and 20.4% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size

1452-426: The reservoir valves were housed in a vault underneath the tower and that the Cincinnati Water Works used the Elsinore Tower for equipment storage. The adjacent WCPO-TV building was built with stonework similar to that used in the arch's construction. (That same building site was once the home of Cincinnati's Natural History Museum.) James Edward Murdoch James E. Murdoch (January 25, 1811 – May 19, 1893)

1496-561: The residents of the area in Warren County, Ohio surrounding Murdoch's farm petitioned to have the region renamed Murdoch, Ohio in his honor. Murdoch, Ohio retained a post office for more than thirty years. Currently, it is an unincorporated community . He was the uncle of the brothers Frank Murdock and Harry Murdock. The actor Harry Murdock perished in 1876 in the Brooklyn Theater Fire along with nearly three hundred others. He

1540-609: The same to the middle of the fifth range of townships; thence east to the County line; thence with same south to the place of beginning." Originally this included land now in Clinton County as far east as Wilmington . Clinton County proved a continuing headache to the legislature. The Ohio Constitution requires that every county have an area of at least four hundred square miles (1,036 km ). Clinton County's boundaries were several times adjusted in an effort to comply with that clause of

1584-420: The site have been announced. The county has six public libraries: Warren County has one public airport, designated as Lebanon-Warren County Airport (I68). The runway is a 4502' x 65' paved and lighted north–south runway (01/19), and parallel taxiway. Navigation and communications equipment includes PAPI , AWOS , Pilot Controlled Lighting , and UNICOM . The airport runway, taxiway, and navigation equipment

1628-481: The telephone companies serving Warren County: CenturyLink (CL); FairPoint Communications (FP); Altafiber (AF); AT&T (AT&T); TDS Telecom (TDS); and Frontier Communications (F). Warren County is in the 513 and 937 area codes. The following exchange areas serve Warren County, listed with the area code and incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) abbreviation from above serving that exchange (list may not be up-to-date): Warren County has long been one of

1672-400: The traveling company of Vincent DeCamp. The following year, he married Eliza Middlecott. In 1832, while suffering from indigestion, he accidentally ingested a preparation of arsenic. A doctor was called in and saved his life, but thereafter he would suffer health problems and fatigue. During the succeeding years, he took various roles on the stage. His career prospects began to take a turn for

1716-472: Was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.14. The median age was 37.8 years. The median income for a household in the county was $ 71,274 and the median income for a family was $ 82,090. Males had a median income of $ 61,091 versus $ 41,331 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 31,935. About 4.7% of families and 6.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 7.6% of those under age 18 and 5.2% of those age 65 or over. Warren County

1760-401: Was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.12. In the county, the population was spread out, with 27.70% under the age of 18, 7.10% from 18 to 24, 34.00% from 25 to 44, 21.80% from 45 to 64, and 9.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 102.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.40 males. The median income for

1804-603: Was an American actor and elocutionist. James Edward Murdoch (sometimes spelled "Murdock") was born in Philadelphia , the eldest of four sons of Thomas and Elizabeth Murdoch. James apprenticed under his father in the business of bookbinding. He served as a volunteer fireman with the Vigilant Company. In 1829, he made his first dramatic appearance as Frederick in Kotzebue's play Lover's Vows . He had his first lead role in 1830 with

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1848-547: Was established on May 1, 1803, from Hamilton County ; it is named for Dr. Joseph Warren , a hero of the Revolution who sent Paul Revere and the overlooked William Dawes on their famous rides and who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill . Warren County is part of the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area . Warren County was established in 1803. The first non-Native American settlers were migrants from New England . During

1892-417: Was performing in the play The Two Orphans with Kate Claxton , who survived the fire. Frank Murdock was an actor, writer, and painter, who wrote the screenplay for the 1916 film Davy Crockett that starred William Farnum and was directed by William Desmond Taylor . During the last two years of his life James Murdoch suffered from various ailments and was cared for by his two daughters, Fanny and Ida. He

1936-467: Was very popular in Cincinnati, mainly because Cincinnati was his hometown. Although many in the audience felt that Mr. Murdock was too old to play the role of Hamlet, they were highly impressed with the stage sets, especially the opening scene. This particular stage set was a 65-by-65 foot painting of Elsinore Castle (also known as Kronberg Castle), where the moody Denmark prince walked at night and spoke with

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