The Ohio Female College was founded in 1852 in College Hill, Cincinnati by Reverend John Covert and operated until 1873.[1][2]
The site was used to build the Cincinnati Sanitarium, the first private US psychiatric facility not on the East Coast.[3] 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.[4][5]
Notable alumni edit
- Cornelia Laws St. John (died 1902), poet
References edit
- ^ The Ohio Channel : Your State : Remarkable Ohio : Marker Details[permanent dead link]
- ^ 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".