The Addyston post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Sekitan (1885), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 1,182 in 18902020 census: 927137 years
Founding year: the first Addyston post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
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The area that would later become Addyston was known as "Coal City" by the 1870s, as it was home to two highly productive coal elevators along the Ohio River. Canadian immigrant Matthew Addy purchased an area of Coal City's riverfront in 1889 and subsequently founded the Addyston Pipe and Steel Company. Addyston was incorporated in 1891. Addyston served as a company town for Addy's foundry, with nearly 80% of the village's homes rented by Pipe and Steel Company workers by the early 1900s. In 1894, the company entered into a cartel with other pipe manufacturers in which they agreed not to compete with each other in order to increase the price of their products. The cartel was the subject of an 1899 US Supreme Court antitrust case, Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. v. United States.
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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio1894 · page 417Read the page →
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Addyston Churches. — The Methodist and Episcopal churches of Addyston were built in 1891, the colored Baptist in 1890, and the colored Methodist in 1892. All are frame structures. # St Joseph Catholic Church , North Bend. — There was a small Catholic population here as early as 1880, and mass was celebrated at private houses by priests from the city. When Father Scholl assumed charge at Delhi in 1875 he included this point in his parish, and agitated the erection of a church building. The cornerstone was laid September 19, 1888, by Rev. Albrink, vicar-general of the diocese,
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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio1894 · page 416Read the page →
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historic associations the village possesses few elements of interest or importance. It has a substantial school building and town hall and a fine Catholic church. It was incorporated in 1874, and included considerable territory to the east, but when Addyston came into existence this corporation was dissolved in order to permit that place to secure separate political autonomy. Cleves had a population of 836 in 1880 and 1,227 in 1890. It was incorporated in 1875. The first mayor was W. B. Welsh; clerk, Joseph M. Balsley; council, W.
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Timeline
Addyston, 1885 to 1933
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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