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The City was named after "Fort Mitchel" (through an oversight, the name of the town was spelled with two L's). The exact location of Fort Mitchel is believed to be on the hill between the end of Summit Lane and Barrington Road near the Dixie Highway. One of twenty-three such Civil War forts manned by the Union armies and located on the hills and ridges of Northern Kentucky, its function was to protect the City of Cincinnati from invasion by Confederate armies. Cincinnati was extremely important to the Union because it was the largest meat packing, manufacturing, and river harbor city in this part of the nation. It was common during the Civil War to name encampments after the living as well as the dead. Fort Mitchel was named after General Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, a general in the Union army. General Mitchel was born in Goss, Kentucky, and received his training at West Point, graduating fifth in a class which included Robert E. Lee. In addition to a distinguished military career, Mitchel was a professor of mathematics and philosophy at Cincinnati College and was instrumental in helping to establish Cincinnati College's Law School. In 1836, he established Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel's Institute of Science and Language, located on the corner of Broadway and Third Street in Cincinnati. Sometime between 1842 and 1845, he founded the Cincinnati Observatory, which at the time of its founding on Mt. Adams housed the second largest telescope in the world...

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