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.
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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.
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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 |
