This is a village, and once a series of fine farms, amounting in the aggregate to five hundred and sixty-five acres. It is situated on the line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad, and twelve miles from our own city. The property has been purchased by a joint-stock company of thirty persons, who propose, after selecting their own lots out of the premises, to lay off the residue into building lots of various sizes, confining their sales to actual residents, at least for the summer season, and of a description of persons who will be desirable neighbors to each other. A series of improvements are in progress, which will make Glendale a delightful residence. An artificial lake of four acres surface, and seventeen feet depth, has been created, by running a dam three hundred feet long just below four or five permanent and abundant springs ; which will secure inexhaustible supplies of water for washing and bathing.

Glendale will be a station for wooding and watering, and passengers and freight for the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton railroad**. An arrangement will be made to establish regular morning and evening trains to and from Cincinnati, in addition to the through trains.

This will afford unrivaled facilities to accommodate the dwellers at Glendale.

There will be three hundred lots or more, laid out, for future purchasers.

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**The lake was actually built by the railroad to insure sufficient water for their steam locomotives. The water was channeled down Coral Avenue, probably down the natural creek, to the watering tower down by the tracks.

To add to the original story above, let me answer your question before you ask it.

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Lake Hannigan was very hard to keep clean and sanitary, so in 1921 the Ohio State Board of Health condemned the lake and it was then drained. The area now is Carruthers Park, aka Lake Park.

Young Ladies from Glendale College at Lake Hannigan


The lake at low water; perhaps as it was being drained in 1921. If you look above the large white house with the Mansard roof, you can see the top of the old water tower, which was across Sharon Avenue from Town Hall.


Lake Hannigan


Winter fun on Lake Hannigan


Lake Hannigan Inlet Then


Lake Hannigan Inlet Today... Carruthers Park