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Reading began in 1794, when Abraham Voorhees moved his family from Somerset County, New Jersey, and built a large double log cabin on the west bank of Mill Creek.

In 1795 Harvey Redinbo, a Pennsylvania Dutchman, bought land nearby and later convinced Voorhees to name the town Reading, after Redinbo's hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania.

Voorhees platted the town around 1798 as Voorhees-Town; it was formally recorded as Reading on January 7, 1804.

Between 1830 and 1880, Reading grew into the largest village in Hamilton County, powered by its clothing manufacturing industry.

Reading was incorporated as a village on March 24, 1851, and became a city on January 1, 1932.

The Benson Street Bridge, built in 1901 over Mill Creek at the Lockland border, was the second concrete rainbow-arch bridge ever built and the first in Ohio.

Downtown Reading's Bridal District, along Benson Street, is considered the most well-known concentration of wedding-related businesses in the United States.

Reading withdrew from Sycamore Township on May 19, 1943, forming its own paper township called Reading Township.

The 2020 census counted 10,600 residents in Reading, living in 4,705 households.

Reading flies two mottos — “The Crossroads of Opportunity” and the German “Wir Tun Unser Bestes” (“We Do Our Best”) — the second reflecting the city's German ancestry.