The community of Mt. Healthy is located about 15 miles north of Cincinnati.  It was originally named Mt. Pleasant. It was founded in the 1810s. It was on land originally owned by John Cleves Symmes. In 1804, John LaBoiteaux came from NJ and settled on land west of the Great Road (now Hamilton Ave.). The town began with a tavern built by John LaBoiteaux about 1815 along the Hamilton Pike. The town was laid out by John LaBoiteaux and Samuel Hill and began to be settled  in 1817.

The town's first settlers were English, German, and French immigrants.

Over the next several years, a number of homes and businesses grew up alongside the tavern, so that by the 1830s Mt. Pleasant had a population of more than two hundred people.

The town prospered economically in the following decades, including not only retail establishments but also some light manufacturing. Businesses included a number of taverns, a furniture factory, several garment factories, wagon makers, and potteries.

The area also attracted a number of Roman Catholics and African Americans.

In the years prior to the Civil War, the community was also known for its meetings of the Liberty Party.

The community began to be known as Mt. Healthy because of the number of its citizens surviving the Cholera epidemics of nearby Cincinnati, and in 1893 was officially renamed. Actually, the local post office had referred to the town as Mt. Healthy since 1884, trying to avoid confusion with another Ohio town also called Mt. Pleasant.

Mt. Healthy began to create stronger ties with the city of Cincinnati in 1898, when an electric trolley line extended to its area for the first time. In the twentieth century, as automobile use became more widespread, Mt. Healthy became an official suburb of Cincinnati.
 

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