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The first Cincinnati Turners club was formed on November 21, 1848 in a small building at the corner of Plum and Canal Streets in Over-the-Rhine. By 1850 a gymnasium was constructed, but the membership grew so rapidly that the building was replaced with a much larger one. The buildings not only housed gyms and bowling alleys, but meeting rooms as well. They were, in effect, community halls in which a variety of Cincinnati political and civic groups met on a regular basis. The Central Turner’s Hall on Walnut Street in Cincinnati, ca. 1909.
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