Mount Healthy, OH Homes for Rent

Settled in 1817, Mount Healthy – originally called Mount Pleasant – was a major travel stop between Cincinnati and Fort Hamilton in the first half of the 19th century. Cincinnati's cholera epidemic of 1849 had city residents fleeing to less populated areas, and Mount Pleasant became a sanctuary. After the epidemic passed, the community was renamed Mount Healthy and slowly but surely continued to develop. Today, it maintains a rural appeal, offering residents diverse outdoor recreation. Urban agriculture is also becoming a huge draw for the area, with locals diving into self-sustaining practices. "The green lifestyle is a rapidly growing part of the neighborhood," says Karen Arnett, Chair of the Mount Healthy Renaissance Project. "Residents like tending to a garden, keeping bees or having a chicken coop; they even extract syrup from the maple trees." Mount Healthy is a world of quiet neighborhood streets, with residents walking their dogs on the sidewalks in the early morning and tending to their gardens. The community is flush with mature trees, sprawling yards and bright pops of flora, with the outskirts closer to the forest line offering residential privacy. Architecture is