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History
The Beekman Street Steps climb the eastern face of Saint Clair Heights, long known as Schuetzenbuckel, meaning 'shooter's hill' in German. In the mid-1800s a grand Baptist seminary occupied the summit, later serving as a military academy, then a medical college, and from 1866 a German target-shooting resort. After the resort burned in 1888, the city renamed the park for General Arthur Saint Clair, the first Governor of the Northwest Territory. Local tradition holds that Annie Oakley, then 15, walked steps to this hilltop on Thanksgiving Day 1875 to outshoot marksman Frank Butler, setting her on the path to fame. Source: Walking the Steps of Cincinnati, Ohio University Press, 2014.
Carll Street #1601 & Baltimore Avenue, Cincinnati, OH