Western Basin: (Satellite)
Eastern Basin: (Satellite)Pump Station #7: (Satellite)
The structure in the middle was a wall that separated the reservoir into an East and West Basin.
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| 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 and Ohio posted Eden Park Reservoir ~ Bakers Pass ~ Cincinnati Ohio circa 1911! Carol Underwood: The first pic I've seen with water in the reservoir. Mike Beresford: Carol Underwood Really!? Actually (now) it’s just a “mirror” covering the actual reservoir. The covering was placed to protect the water from a threat of possible poison. (I don’t remember if it was WWI or WWII) |
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| SeeingTheWoods, Image courtesy of The New York Public Library. Nicholas Longworth used the hilltop for a vineyard, and he was "the first commercially successful winemaker in the United States, and thus the “Father of American Wine.”" The city bought the land to create a water reservoir. |
Some of the East Basin wall is still visible.
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| Street View, Jun 2024 |
The smokestack near the right of the above view is how I found the pump station.
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| Joshua & Sarah Lee, May 2025 |
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| 4:23 video @ 1:17 Suicide Victims to Wrecked Cars Found in Historic Eden Park Reservoir, Cincinnati, Ohio |
Google's AI results claim that this standpipe remains, but I could not find it.
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| @ 1:28 |
Each year, one of the two basins would be emptied and cleaned. After a cleaning, the basin would be used for a while as an arena of orchestra performances. [HistoryInYourOwnBackyard]
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