Eden Park has worn many hats for Cincinnati. One of the more crucial ones was as a water works area during the 2nd half of the 1800's.
The area where Mirror Lake is today was once part of a 96 million gallon reservoir, the most telling evidence of which is the remnants of the wall, pictured immediately above. Water was pumped out of the Ohio River below into the reservoir, and from the reservoir it flowed through the Eden Park Standpipe into the surrounding grid.
Eden Park Station #7 was shut down allegedly due to river pollution in 1907, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. I haven't looked hard into it, but my guess (based on research done for the Eden Park Standpipe post) is the tower serves as another standpipe to help regulate the water pressure in and out of the pumping station.
A personal note, the old reservoir wall is pretty spiffy to learn to rappel on. Back in my high school days, my Boy Scout troop had the chance to make an excursion here. Rappelling followed by a trip to Krohn's Observatory covers most of the Scout bases, I think.
Sources for this post:
- Wikipedia (as usual)
- Previous research on the Eden Park Standpipe
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