Boone County, Kentucky, 1899
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Boone County was the 35th county formed in Kentucky. The law enacting Boone County was passed on December 13, 1798 the county was formed on June 1, 1799 from Campbell County. Its boundaries are unchanged since March 10, 1870. It has an area of 246.2 square miles, making it the 87th largest of Kentucky's 120 counties. |
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In 1876, the R. L. Polk Company published The Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, which listed information about virtually every town in Kentucky. The listings from Boone County are these: |
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| Bullitsville | Burlington | Hamilton |
| Grant (Belleview) | Hebron | Petersburg |
| Union | Verona | Walton |
A later, 1895 Gazetteer adds:
An earlier, pre-Civil War Gazetteer from 1859 lists
details on
only these three Boone County locations:
| Memberships Lists of the Masonic Lodges of 1911 in these Boone County locations are here: (pdf's) | ||
| Burlington | Hebron | Belleview |
| Union | Big Bone | Walton |
The Boone County Historical Society's site is here.
A status report from the Superintendent of Schools in Boone County from 1900 is here.
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The Kentucky Department of Agriculture's assessment of agriculture in Boone County, in 1898-1899 can be found here. (pdf) |
A List of the Boone County Historical Markers is here.
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The 1878 Biographical
Encyclopedia of Kentucky |
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| B. G. Willis | H. C. White | J. P. Gaines |
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"Judge O. P. Hogan [of Williamstown], in addition to his stage lines between Covington and Burlington and Walton and Williamstown, has started another line between the latter points, thus giving the people along that route a morning and evening line both ways. He has also started a line between Williamstown and Georgetown three times a week. The three latter lines all make close connections with trains at Walton." From the Covington Journal, May 31, 1873. |
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A list of the first automobiles registered for Boone County in 1910 is here. |
A site that has collected lots of older Boone County Baptist Church histories is here. (pdf)
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Ellis Cummins Crawford (of Behringer-Crawford fame) wrote about the Rogers Site, and Indian Mound Excavation, between Petersburg and Grant. It's here. (pdf) |
The Dinsmore House's site is here.
Most states track the largest tree of
each species on the state. Kentucky's list is
here,
and
you'll find Boone Co has the largest Red Buckeye, and the largest Northern Red
Oak in the state.
| The steamer General Pike was charged with distributing relief supplies at the height of the 1884 flood. Read about it’s stop in Bromley, Constance, Stringtown, and Taylorsport here. |
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In 1854, nine Boone County slaves attempt an escape to Canada, but don't make it. Story here. |
In 1969, Edna Talbott Whitley compiled a
list of Cabinetmakers
in Kentucky. The Boone County portion of that list is
here.
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"B. B. Hume, the greatest horseman that Boone County ever knew, has sold half his interest in the Allphin & Hume Livery & Sale Stable at Walton to Scott Chambers of Petersburg, an experienced undertaker, who with ex-sheriff B. B. Allphin will engage in the undertaking business in conjunction with their undertaking business. The Cincinnati Coal and Coke Co. are negotiating with Mr. Hume to take charge of their stables but he is undecided yet." from the Warsaw Independent, January 20, 1906 |
Boone County sites placed on the National Places of Historical Places are here.
Phone numbers used to have letters in them? Here.
Boone County Officials, 1847, here.
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Boone County was formed from a part of Campbell County in 1799. It was the 30th county to be formed in Kentucky, and is named for, uh, Daniel Boone. (You knew that, right?) More info? Google lists about 1,390,000 or so mentions for Dan'l, here, or, you can read his bio. That's a link to a good Boone biography at Amazon on the right. Recommended. |
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The Boone County Library has digitized a
number of Boone
County History texts. Florence, Big Bone Lick, Walton,
Boone County Recorder Indices, Slavery in Boone County,
and more. You can read them all,
here, and
see their additional
Boone County pictures,
here.
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Information on the four covered bridges that used to serve in Boone County are listed in the data base at web site of Kentucky Covered Bridges, here. |
A site dedicated to the bridges of Boone County is here.
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In 1930, Kentucky Progress Magazine ran a feature letting each of Kentucky's counties list their accomplishments for 1929. What Boone County came up with is here. (pdf) |
In 1919, there was a farm census, counting livestock, crops and farms. Boone County's is here.
On
August 4, 1852, the Cincinnati Daily Gazette published the State
of Kentucky’s Hog Assessment – the number of hogs over 6 months
old per county. The number in Boone County was 14,951.
The WPA Writers Project from the late
1930's conducted a number of interviews
with ex-slaves. The only one from Boone County is
this one, but I suggest
you take everything it says with a large grain of salt. The Uncle
Tom's
Cabin references are just flat wrong.
Program from Boone County Negro School, 1930
The Boone County Basketball Tournament. Date?
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A 1923 Boone County Map, before I-75,
before US 42,
and before the airport, are in these three sections:
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In 1914, here’s what the L&N’s Industrial Freight and Shipper’s Guide had to say about:
James Duvall's Baptist History
Homepage has a large collection of the histories
of virtually ever Baptist Church that was ever in Boone County, biographies of
many
of the notable figures of those churches. Check it out
here.
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"On Sunday last week, about twenty slaves belonging to citizens of Boone county, escaped from their masters. They belonged to different individuals, and so well was the plan of escape matured, that at last accounts, nothing had been heard of them. They were without doubt aided by Abolitionists of Ohio or Indiana. The people of Boone county, a may well be supposed, are justly excited and indignant at this new and heavy outrage upon their rights." from the Louisville Daily Courier, April 11, 1853. |
Random Boone County News, circa 1813, is here.
This map from the 1914 Statistical Atlas of the US, identifies
the absolute center
of the US population was in Boone County, Kentucky in 1880. The exact spot
is near an
airport viewing area near the south end of Mineola Pike. There's an
historical marker there.
There are seven other Boone Counties in the USA:
| Boone County, Arkansas | Boone County, Illinois |
| Boone County, Indiana | Boone County, Iowa |
| Boone County, Missouri | Boone County, Nebraska |
| Boone County, West Virginia | |
A List of Boone County Cemeteries is here. You will also want to look here.
You can read a proposal to build the
Covington, Big Bone,
and Carrollton Railroad, here.
You can get information on Boone County
ancestors by subscribing
to the mailing list created for that purpose. You'll get periodic
information, and can submit your own questions, all via email.
Sign up
here
for Boone County.
Here is a
list of all available lists on Kentucky.
Additional Florence history is here.
Additional Big Bone history is here.
Additional Union history is here.
Nine slaves escape Boone County, make it to Ohio, but are
turned in
by one of their own in 1854. There are stories from
Day 1 and
Day 2.
| William Fitzgerald's Place Names in Boone County is here. (pdf) | Robert Ellis' Boone County - Boom County, from 1955, is here. (pdf) |
| A Brief History of Slavery in Boone County, by Merrill Caldwell, is here. (pdf) | Prof. A. M. Yealey writes on Civil War events in Boone County, here. (pdf) His History of Boone County is here. (pdf). |
| Kathryn Boyd has written a piece on Price Pike and its people, which is here. | A newspaper article from 1861 about possible Civil War trouble in Florence. Here. |
| Short biography of Boone County's Brigadier General E. R. S. Canby can be found here. | Paul Tanner write on Boone County's Toll roads. Read it here. |
| In 1894, the Cincinnati Enquirer cites a record of lynching going on over in Boone County in 1894. Story here. | Who went to the penitentiary from Boone County from 1808 to 1830, and why? There's a list, here. |
| An Account of the First Boone Countians: An Account of the Prehistory of Boone County is here. (pdf) | Boone County Historical Society's 1958 booklet of essays on Florence histories is here. (pdf) |
| A.M. Yealey writes about the toll gates in Boone County, here. | There were 41 one room schools in Boone County in 1897. The full list is here. |
| Ann Lutes' History of Florence is here. (pdf) | Ann Lutes' Brief History of Boone County is here. (pdf) |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Goodridge Nestor writes on the Old County Fairs Held in Florence, Kentucky, here. (pdf) | Around 1951, eighty year old Mabel G. Sayre wrote her autobiography, My Life In Boone County, More Than Sixty-Three Years. You can read it here. (pdf) |
| Partial map of Boone County, from 1804, here. |
Kentucky Progress Magazine named R. B. Huey as one of
12 Master Farmers
in the state of Kentucky in January, 1931.
Steamer Thomas Sherlock at Parlor Grove
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Before King's Island, before Coney Island, and even before the Ludlow Lagoon, there was Boone County's Parlor Grove Amusement Park. Read all about it, here. |
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"A Negro named Scales, who had just been discharged from the Cincinnati Workhouse and had obtained employment on a farm in Boone County, Ky., made brutal assault last Saturday upon the 5-year-old daughter of a poor man named Lundsford. The Negro knew that the child was alone in the house before he entered it. As the Negro threatened to kill her is she told, the little one did not tell her mother until the pain compelled the disclosure. Scales was arrested and with difficulty taken to the Burlington Jail. Last night a mob gathered at Florence, and in wagons and on horseback went to Burlington, broke into the jail, carried the Negro to the woods on the turnpike road, and there hanged him to a tree." New York Times, September 12, 1885 |
You can sign up to get on the Boone
County Genealogical Mailing List
by the following the instructions you'll find
here.
Visit Philip Naff's In The Region, a site devoted to Boone County History and Genealogy, here.
The Kentuckiana Digital Library has a
number of Boone
County images. Quality is erratic, but it's worth a look,
here.
This list of Boone County deaths from
WWII is from
the National Archives.
There's a key to what the
various abbreviations mean here, and the
actual list is here.
The World War I list is here.
Boone County Cemetery Records are here, here, and here.
The Boone County Roots Web site is here.
The Biography section of Roots Web for Boone County Citizens is here.
Can you name the fifty-five (56!) town
names in Boone
County that have had US post offices? That list is
here.
Detailed Presidential voting statistics from Boone County are here.
Additional Links that apply to all of
Northern Kentucky Views, and may or may not
be related to Boone County, are on the main Links & Miscellany page,
here.
