[1] John Cleves Symmes, congressman from New Jersey, purchased a vast tract of land between the two Miami rivers for less than a $1.00 an acre.

Pleasant Ridge marks its beginning as a community in 1795, when land agent Colonel John McFarland bought nearly 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) from Symmes and built a small fort to protect early settlers from Native American attacks.

Legend is that one of these young veterans, Samuel Pierson, accompanied his friend John Brewster, who lost his wife and baby in childbirth, on the search for a proper burial site.

McFarland's Station was located on the border of what is now the neighborhoods of Kennedy Heights and Pleasant Ridge.

The Presbyterian Church moved from Duck Creek to its present site in 1800 with a school built nearby around 1819.

The family, including 10 children, lived in "the fort" until they built a house off Montgomery Pike, with brick burned on site.

The petition to be annexed by Cincinnati 20 years later had several opponents, but the proponents believed the added services would outweigh other disadvantages.

In 1904 the village made national news when the floor of the school's outhouse collapsed, and nine young girls drowned in the waste of the vault beneath.

[1] According to the U.S. Census American Community Survey, for the period 2016-2020 the estimated median annual income for a household in the neighborhood was $62,150.

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