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Death at Dinsmore
Friday, October 16 at Dinsmore Homestead, Cincinnati
About this event
This October, visit the Dinsmore Homestead for an evening of stories about the Dinsmore family and the men, women and children who worked for them as they faced life’s great equalizer: death. With tours running every half hour, docents will share tales of mourning traditions, melancholy and macabre medicinal cures - some of which may even have worked. See where death took place and explore the parlor as it was likely arranged for Susan Dinsmore’s tragic 1851 funeral. Reserve your spot online and uncover the history, traditions and stories surrounding death at the Dinsmore Homestead.
What to expect
This is a guided storytelling tour rather than a haunted-house attraction. Tours run every half hour, with docents sharing accounts tied to the Dinsmore family, the men, women and children who worked for them, period mourning customs and medicinal remedies that now read as strange, unsettling or unexpectedly practical.
Why go
For visitors interested in Cincinnati-area history, Death at Dinsmore offers a focused look at nineteenth-century life through one of its most universal subjects. The event uses Dinsmore Homestead itself as part of the interpretation, connecting family stories, work life, funeral traditions and the preserved spaces of the Burlington site.
Where
Dinsmore Homestead · 5656 Burlington Pike · Florence, Cincinnati OHOpen in Maps
