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Settled in 1788 on the north bank of the Ohio River, Cincinnati, Ohio is the seat of Hamilton County. The surveyor named the settlement Losantiville. In 1790, the governor of the Northwest Territory, Arthur St. Clair, changed the name to honor the Society of the Cincinnato, which is an organization which was founded in order to preserve the ideals and fellowship of the officers of the Revolutionary War.

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