The Ohio Female College was founded in 1852 in College Hill, Cincinnati by Reverend John Covert and operated until 1873.
The site was used to build the Cincinnati Sanitarium, the first private US psychiatric facility not on the East Coast. The sanitarium was renamed Emerson A. North Hospital in 1956. When the hospital closed in 1994, the site was used by Phoenix International, a company that conducted clinical trials of drugs for the pharmaceutical industry. After Phoenix left in 2000, Cincinnati Children's Hospital College Hill Campus was established on the site.
Notable alumni
- Cornelia Laws St. John (died 1902), poet
References
- The Ohio Channel : Your State : Remarkable Ohio : Marker Details
- Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors, The Wisen-Hart Press, 1943, p. 402.
- Ohio Female College, Ohio History Central, July 1, 2005.
- Catherine Cooper (September 1984), "From College to Hospital: Emerson North looks to its roots", Cincinnati Magazine
- "A History of the Children's Hospital College Hill Campus".
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