Because some  Northern Kentucky information doesn't fit neatly into a single county.

 


Northern Kentucky Highway Map, 1929

Key to the above map

Maps.  Northern Kentucky Views has a small collection of some very old maps
 of the area,  all of which can be found by following the link here.

There is an interesting site that has some dynamic overlays of Kentucky
Counties and their formations, since 1790.  Go here.

The Lexington-Cincinnati Bus

Remember when the Licking River flowed north to Hamilton, Ohio, and the Kentucky River turned northeast at Carrollton and headed for Cincinnati?  No? That’s because you were born after the last glacier left the area.  Read all about it, here.

The Kenton County Public Library's  Places and Faces: Northern Kentucky Photographic Archive  is on line here.  They say there are 60,000 photo's here. It covers most of the counties of Northern Kentucky Views.

A wonderful Ohio River Steamboat site is the Cincinnati Public Library's Inland River Photographs.  They estimate 19,000 photographs.  See'em here.

On the other hand, the Murphy Library at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire houses the DuPae collection, and includes over 40,000 steamboat photographs.  You can find them here.

A few charts from the 1910 Census, showing population characteristics of Kentucky counties.
left, Percent increase of decrease in population, in total, and in rural areas from the 1900 census to the 1910 census
right, Population Density of Kentucky counties, in total, and by rural populations
left, percent of acreage in farms, and the value of those farms, per acre
right, Negro population by county

Some Area and Population Statistics

Sorted by Area, and Rank in Size
County  Area Population Density Rank in Size Density Rank
Gallatin        98.8 7,870        79.6 120 43
Carroll      130.0 10,155        78.0 118 45
Trimble      148.8 8,125        54.5 117 63
Campbell      151.5 88,616      584.7 116 4
Kenton      161.9 151,464      935.1 114 2
Bracken      203.2 8,279        40.7 100 82
Mason      241.1 16,800        69.6 89 50
Boone      246.2 85,991      349.1 87 5
Grant      259.9 22,384        86.1 79 33
Pendleton      280.5 14,390        51.2 74 69
Owen      352.1 10,547        29.9 44 111
         

Sorted by Population Density and Density Ranking
County  Area Population Density Rank in Size Density Rank
Owen      352.1 10,547 29.9 44 111
Bracken      203.2 8,279 40.7 100 82
Pendleton      280.5 14,390 51.2 74 69
Trimble      148.8 8,125 54.5 117 63
Mason      241.1 16,800 69.6 89 50
Carroll      130.0 10,155 78.0 118 45
Gallatin        98.8 7,870 79.6 120 43
Grant      259.9 22,384 86.1 79 33
Boone      246.2 85,991 349.1 87 5
Campbell      151.5 88,616 584.7 116 4
Kenton      161.9 151,464 935.1 114 2
         

Northern Kentucky counties are among the smallest in Kentucky.  The state's three
largest counties (Pike, 786; Christian, 726; & Pulaski, 630) total 2142 square miles, while the
eleven counties of Northern Kentucky Views only total 2,274.  On the other hand, the population density
is higher.  The median county density is 65.

(The density numbers are people per square mile; the rankings are the positions among Kentucky's
120 counties; the population figures are from the 2000 census. Statewide data is here.)

In October of 1926, the Cincinnati Auto Club suggests this route from Cincinnati, through Kenton, Boone, Grant ("not ten acres of level ground in the county"), Pendleton, Campbell and back to Cincinnati.

Covington's Mary Ann Mongan Library has one of those "Wow!" features online.  If, after going here, and entering Milford, Worthville, Petersburg, Dover, Foster, or whatever, you sometimes - not always - get back actual links to high quality images of Northern Kentucky Newspapers from the 1800's.  I find it more helpful to sort them by the oldest article first. They're pdf images.  There's a feature in your Adobe pdf viewer that lets you magnify the images.  Play with it - I think you'll find it a great feature, and you'll be surprised at how much information from "outside I-275" is in the early Covington and Newport papers.  The "inside 275" stuff is there as well.

Lafayette came through Northern Kentucky.  Read about it, here.

A nifty little tool at the web site of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve will convert old prices (1913 and later) into current prices. Try it here.

You know Fort Wright and Fort Mitchel, but can you place Northern Kentucky's
Fort Rich?  Fort Perry? Here's a complete list of Civil War fortifications in Northern Kentucky

More info on the old and new Ohio River Locks and Dams is here.

The role of Captain Anthony Meldahl during a 1905 Congressional Tour of the River,
in contemplation of building a series of locks and dams, is explored here. (pdf)

    
Somewhere on the Falmouth-Covington Road East Dixie Highway, Boone or Kenton County East Dixie Highway, Boone or Kenton County.  Is that a railroad on the right?

 

 

 

Circa 1920, The Kentucky Highway Department published some photo's that showed all the new and fancy roads they were building.  The above three photo's are from them, but they weren't further identified as to exact location.

Census of Northern Kentucky's Paupers in Almshouses, 1910, here.

     

Eddie Arcaro was one of America's greatest jockeys. 
He was born in Cincinnati, but raised in Covington and Newport, rode at Latonia, and
owned a bar in Erlanger (110 Dixie Highway).  You can read more about him here.

In 1868, a reporter from a Cincinnati newspaper toured Northern Kentucky to get citizens' views on the upcoming elections.  Civil War and Reconstruction feelings were still running strong, and he gets an earful.  I think it's fascinating. You can read it here, but if politically incorrect language upsets you, you should pass.

""From general observation, when we consider the natural feeling of a white man that is born and reared in the State of Ohio, regarding the rights and privileges due our race, especially if he is engaged in business in Kentucky, or an employee, his greatest aim is to stir animosity and impede the Negro.  But the Kentuckian will assist the Negro, and you can find him what he professes to be.  A hint should be sufficient." from Indianapolis' The Freeman, A National Illustrated Colored Newspaper, August 9, 1890

The Annual Report of the Kentucky Superintendent of Public Education from 1858 had
a number of interesting statistics.  You can find'em here.

Similar statistics from the 1899-1900 school year are here.

There's a site where you can look up who in your county is putting the most noxious pollutants into your environment, here.

Confederate hero John Hunt Morgan escaped his imprisonment in Columbus Ohio, came south to Cincinnati, crossed the river into Ludlow, wound through Boone County to Napoleon in Gallatin County, and then through Owen County.  You can read more details on his route here. (pdf)

From 1962, Clifford Specht writes on the Civil War defenses surrounding Cincinnati.  You can read it here.  (pdf) Dr. Alvin Poweleit compiled some information he called Our Northern Kentucky Negro Doctors.  You can read it here.  (pdf) Eugene Druley's Early Telephone History of Northern Kentucky is here.  (pdf)
William O'Neal's The Stagecoach Comes to Northern Kentucky is here.  (pdf) Glenn Finch's Floating Palaces of the Ohio River is here. (pdf) William Strategier's History of Railroads in Kentucky, here.  (pdf)
George F. Roth Jr. wrote about Early Architecture in the Covington-Newport
Area of Kentucky, and you can read it here.  (pdf)		 Mr. Ellis Cummins Crawford's paper on Notes and Diaries of Early Kentucky Settlers is here. (pdf) There's a site about Kentuckians of German ancestry who fought in
 the Civil War, either for the Union or the Confederacy.  It's here.

Daniel Boone State Park, 15 miles south of Covington.  Huh? 
What little I know about it is here.

Years of the 15 Worst Cincinnati Floods, here.

Was the Ohio River at 112 feet in 1789?  Maybe.
Also over 100 feet in 1774?  The Indians said yes, here.

Today we have Markland and Meldahl, but these two dams
replaced nine - 9! -  earlier locks and dams.  Details here.

The Kentucky Historical Society's site allows you to search by county images can
 be found here.  Select the county you want when you get there.

Dr. Joseph Gastright's History of the Kentucky Central Railroad is in three parts: (pdf's)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

A nifty little tool at the web site of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve will convert old prices (1913 and later) into current prices. Try it here.

Mortality Statistics for Covington and Newport, from 1909
 
By Age By Cause By Nationality

A site that has post a lot of older high school yearbooks
 of Kentucky schools is here.  They invite your scans.

A few statistics on highway construction progress from 1911, here.

By City By Make By County

These are all the automobiles registered with the State of Kentucky from June 14, 1910 until roughly the same day in 1911.  It's the first year Kentucky registered automobiles; so these may not be THE first cars in the county, but they are the first registered cars.

For each individual county's registrants, see that county's Links & Miscellany page, or, try these:

Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Grant, Kenton, Mason, and Pendleton.
(There were no registrations in this period from Gallatin, Owen, or Trimble County)

This graph shows the relative populations of the eight smaller counties of Northern Kentucky Views, from 1800 to 2000.

 

This graph shows the relative populations of the Boone, Kenton & Campbell Counties  from 1800 to 2000.

 

This graph shows the relative populations of the Boone, Kenton, Mason & Campbell Counties  from 1800 to 1860, along with Jefferson and Fayette, just for reference.

 


These two charts both present slave population from Northern Kentucky.  On the left is actual populations; on the left, is the number of slaves as a percentage of total population.  Remember some counties were established later than others.
More on these numbers, including a link to the mega-load of population data, is here.

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