A View of the C & O R.R. and Ohio River, Foster, 1907

 

Aerial View of Foster

 

  

left, Main Street, Foster, Kentucky
right, A view of the Hill Tops, Foster, Kentucky
A big thanks to Ronald Dunn and 
Janet Costigan for these two of Foster!

 

The Foster Pike

 

The Odd Fellow Cemetery, Foster

Foster Bank

Foster State Bank Closes, the story is here.

 

 

This is Captain Anthony Meldahl, for whom the Meldahl Locks and Dam are named.
The Corp of Engineers' web site for the dam is here.  The steamer is the Cayuga, which bore
 Capt. Mehldahl to his grave, in Neville, across the Ohio from Foster.  Read more about both in this article(pdf)

Reuben Gold Twaites dropped by Foster in 1898.  He wasn't impressed.  Read it here.

The court order which decreed Foster was no longer an official town was
issued on February 26, 1999.  Read the story here.  (pdf)

The News from Foster, 1879, here.

Foster's wharf boat was wrecked in the flood of 1884.  The following winter, ice ground it up, and it floated away.

In 1920, the pioneers of Foster hold a reunion.  Story's here.

The name Foster comes from Israel Foster, a Bracken County farmer.  After the Civil War, he donated land for two churches - a "Northern" and a "Southern" Methodist Church.  The Northern version was closed, and in 1880 they consolidated into a single church

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