The Odd Fellows Hall, Walton, 1906.
more on this building here.

 

Taken from a gas balloon, circa 1909, and on the back it says "Near Walton."  If you can shed any light on where this is, please contact me.  If you want to see the other gas balloon pics, they're on a Ludlow page here, and a Latonia Race track page, here.

 

        

Map of Walton, from 1883
from An Atlas of Boone, Kenton and Campbell
Counties, Kentucky, published by D. J. Lake & Co.
The Lake list of businesses is here.

 

This map is a Sanborn Fire map from 1921. Learn more, here.

 

Mill Pond, South of Walton, Kentucky
Another shot of this pond is below.  You can locate it on the
 1883 map above, near Loreco.


 

Mill Pond and Walton Heights, c. 1910
(You're looking at the the back of houses on S. Main,
near the end of Loreco.)

 

     

    

Boone Lake Fishing Club, 1932
A few words on the origin of the Boone Lake Fishing Club are here.

 

The Old High Street Bridge
photo by Asa "Buddy" Rouse
(first house on the left used to be the home of the Walton Advertiser)

 

Modernizing the supports on the L&N Bridge, 1951

 

Not a postcard, but a booklet of tickets
 to the James Theatre, Walton

 

The L & N Heads South out of Walton

 

Yield of a 1942 Scrap Drive, behind the old school at High School Court
The man on the right is Bob Gordon

 

 

Blue and White Modern Cabins, Walton

 

 

Bally Ache, bred on Alan and Marvin Gaines' Twin Oak Farms just north of Walton, won the 1960 Preakness and finished second in the Kentucky Derby.  He was owned by one Leonard Fruchtman, of Toledo, at the time of the major races.

"A correspondent of the Rising Sun Recorder, writing from Walton, says that their town is the only one on the Lexington Pike where a man can get whiskey.  We wonder how Florence will feel over that assertion.  He describes Walton as a place of one hundred inhabitants, and three doggeries, where the barkeepers will sell you whiskey till you can't drink any longer, and then whip you for not drinking more."  from the newspaper The Ticket, August 7, 1875.

Dr. James Huey presented a map of Walton to the Boone Co. Historical
 Society, with business locations from the early 1950's.  See it here.  (pdf)

Want to read all of the very first issue of the Walton Advertiser?
The four pages of Volume 1, Number 1 are here.   (pdf)

The Enquirer's story on Walton's two decrepit L & N railroad bridges
 (Needmore and Walton-Nicholson Road) can be read here.  (pdf)

The Grant County News visits Walton.  Their story is here.


The Walton Advertiser's story on the disastrous 1971 fire in downtown Walton is here.  (pdf)


The Freedman's Bureau reports on a post-Civil War outrage in Walton, here.

For another Walton view from The Ticket, on July 18, 1876, go here.


The Covington Journal had a piece on Walton in 1870, here.

Fruit jars full of cash, buried in Walton, here.

The Daily Commonwealth's piece on Walton, 1883, is here.

Disastrous Fire, in Walton, 1906.  Here.


An 1899 article on the Abner Gaines House is here, one from 1952 is here. (pdf)

The Kentucky Secretary of State started registering automobiles in 1910.
Go here for the Walton list.

The City of Walton's web site is here.


The Walton Rotary Club's organizational meeting was December 15, 1938.  The program is here. (pdf)
 
A pair of stories on the lynching of Charles Smith in Walton for arson are here.
 		  

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