Construction was begun in the 1850s by the broad gauge Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad, but ceased in 1855[1] due to lack of funds, and was never restarted.
The Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway, a Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary which itself had the much shorter Oak Street Tunnel in the same area, acquired the unfinished tunnel in September 1902 after a foreclosure sale in May 1896.
Ownership passed to the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Detroit Railroad in January 1926 and the Connecting Railway in May 1956, and remained with the Penn Central Company when Conrail took over that company's profitable rail assets in 1976.
Deer Creek was a stream adjacent to the tunnel project in the valley between Mount Auburn and Eden Park.
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