Cincinnati Gateway Sculpture

Designed in 1988 by Andrew Leicester, the Cincinnati Gateway sculpture at Sawyer Point Park displays flying angel pigs atop riverboat stacks, commemorating a time when meat-packing and soap manufacturing ruled the local economy. It was the Ohio River that brought early settlers to the fertile valley giving birth to Cincinnati, and influencing the direction the young city would grow — as a busy riverboat port, as the terminus of the famed Miami-Erie Canal, as a major industrial and commercial center, and, today, as America’s most beautiful inland river city.