Wooden Shoe Hollow
Wooden Shoe Hollow
In-Person
Boone County Extension Enrichment Center
1824 Patrick Drive
Upper Level
Burlington, KY 41005
Last Revised: Aug 1st, 2025
Event Description
They came from Westphalia, Germany, over a century ago, but these "Inwanderers" did not go "Over the Rhine.” Instead, Inwanderers settled across Mill Creek. They were gardeners and truck farmers, and for nearly 100 years they sold their produce in downtown Cincinnati markets. They lived together in a fertile hollow north of Spring Grove Avenue and Winton Place, where many of their greenhouses can still be seen. The group carried on the tradition of wearing wooden shoes in their gardens, worshiping in their German church and dancing on Saturday nights to the music of their homeland. This program presents their history from the mid-1850s to the present. In cooperation with the Cincinnati Museum Center
