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In 1841, construction workers in this city unearthed a five-inch sandstone tablet whose obverse depicts floral patterns. On Christmas Day, 1853, immigrants in this city protested a visit from papal nuncio Gaetano Bedini. A seminary founded in this city’s suburbs names a group of 40 “rebels” who transferred to a nearby liberal arts college. African Americans fleeing violence during 1829 riots in this city helped to establish the Wilberforce Colony. “Forty-eighters” who emigrated to this city at the southern terminus of the Miami and Erie Canal established its “Over-the-Rhine District.” (10[1])It’s not Hartford, but Harriet Beecher Stowe once lived in this Midwestern city, which Arthur St. Clair named possibly as a reference to a “society” of Continental Army veterans. For 10 points, name this city on the Ohio River named after a Roman dictator. ■END■

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