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A View of the C & O R.R. and
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Aerial View of Foster |
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Main Street, Foster, Kentucky
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A view of the Hill Tops, Foster, Kentucky
A big thanks to Ronald Dunn and
Janet Costigan for these two of Foster!
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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)
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A few words on the history of the
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Reuben Gold Twaites dropped by Foster in 1898. He wasn't impressed. Read it here. |
The world's record for the largest channel catfish, since
eclipsed, was set by C. L. Stanley, of Foster, in 1924. He caught his
28-pound prize using chicken liver. |
The Illinois was "a picture-show boat owned and operated by Tom J. Reynolds, 1913-1916. Seated 200. Ohio River system. Burned in 1916 at Foster, Kentucky." from Philip Graham's Showboats: The History of an American Institution, 1951 |
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The News from Foster, 1879, here. |
In 1920, the pioneers of Foster hold a
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The steam boat Hornet capsized near Foster in 1832. You can read about it at this site. |
| "Foster, Ky., The Union schoolhouse, located four miles from here, was destroyed by fire last night. As to the origin of it no one can tell, but is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The building was valued at $500 and is a total loss." from Covington's The Daily Commonwealth, November 5, 1883 | 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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Foster's wharf boat was wrecked in the flood of 1884. The following winter, ice ground it up, and it floated away. |
The court order which decreed Foster was no longer an official town was issued on February 26, 1999. Read the story here. (pdf) |
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Mastodon
bones found near Foster in 1876. Story is here. |
You can read about the 15 foot snake they found in Foster, in 1880, here. |
Notice that the town 4 miles upstream
from Moscow, Ohio, is a place called "Mechanicsburg"
in this steamboat distance chart from
1855's The western tourist and emigrant's guide.
An earlier name for Foster?
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How you build a railroad, in 1883 |
Bold's Cash Store, 1901, Foster |
