Harrison is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The city is located in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area. The population was 10,292 as of the 2013 census.HistoryHarrison was laid out in 1810, named in honor of William Henry Harrison, a decorated general and state legislator and afterward the 9th President of the United States. It was incorporated in 1850, and became a city in 1981.Harrison Township was established in 1850, formerly part of Crosby Township. Among the historic sites in the city's vicinity is the Eighteen Mile House, which was built during the earliest years of the nineteenth century.Harrison was the home of Ohio's fifth governor Othneil Looker.It was one of the few stops in Ohio on the Whitewater Canal, built between 1836 and 1847, which spanned a distance of.On July 13, 1863, Morgan's Raiders, a Confederate cavalry force, invaded. The column passed through taking fresh horses and burning the bridge over the Whitewater River near the southwest part of the town.The first train came to Harrison Township in 1864. In 1882 Harrison Depot was built at West Broadway and Railroad Avenue. It later burned to the ground.
