Bird's Eye View of Alexandria
Court House, Alexandria, c. 1910
Alexandria's Campbell County Courthouse
Campbell County Court House
Info on earlier Campbell Courts, here.
"Recent Fires . . . at Alexandria, Ky., about one fourth of the village has been destroyed."
Scientific American,
April 3, 1847
In 1930, the Kentucky Progress Magazine ran a story on
William Haefner's
fox farming operation in Alexandria. Read it
here.
Alexandria High School, 1922
Alexandria Public School, circa 1910
C. E. McCormick Vocational Education Center
Campbell County Gym, 1957
left, Looking
West on Main Street, 1911
right, Looking East on Main Street, 1911
"Old Alexandria Jail where Jackson and
Walling were confined"
Don't know who Jackson and Walling were? Know
anything
about a headless corpse found in Fort Thomas?
Find out here.
A few words on the prior jail are here.
left, My Old Kentucky Home, on the way to
Alexandria
center, Devil's Elbow, on the Way to Alexandria
right, Ascending Youtsey Hill, on the Way to
Alexandria
Alexandria, 1948
Alexandria VFD, 1941
A key to who's in the picture, here.
Alexandria Fire Department
Ingram's Restaurant
on US 27, nw of the new high school
South from Alexandria
"Cows near Keiser, near Alexandria, Kentucky"
Early Alexandria Fair Scenes
| "Newport, Ky., Aug. 1 [1904] - If you own an auto car keep off the Alexandria pike, leading out of Newport. The board of directors of that corporation have placed an almost prohibitive rate of one cent a mile for each horsepower of the machine that travels the thoroughfare, and as the majority of the autos are of at least 20 horsepower, that means a rate of 20 cents a mile for the privilege of running over the road. As a matter of fact, the directors do not want the "red devils" on the Alexandria pike and are taking this means of keeping them elsewhere." from the Warsaw Independent, August 6, 1904 |
Elizabeth Morrow Cooley's "Early Days of Alexandria, Kentucky" is here. (pdf)
Robert Alexander Robertson is hung in Alexandria in 1852. Story’s here.
5,000 people in Alexandria celebrate the Bi-centennial in
1883. That would be the
Bicentennial of German emigration to America. Read about it
here.
|
"Six years ago a widow lady named Shaw, living near Alexandria, Kentucky, sold a Negro named Cato to Benj. Bell and B. Tucker, of Alexandria, on condition that he should be liberated in 1856. When the time came round he was accordingly set free, and went with his free papers to Cincinnati, but not finding work, returned to Alexandria, and worked for Bell, his old master. On Thursday lat Bell took him with him to Lexington, to assist in driving cattle, and after selling the cattle, sold Cato to the Negro dealer for $900, and had him immediately shipped down south." - New York Times, August 2, 1856. |
Story of an Alexandria slave named Cato, here.
| "It is reported today that the immense district of woodland in Campbell County, Kentucky is on fire and the flames spreading with fearful rapidity. There is much excitement in Alexandria. thirteen miles from Newport, which is said to be threatened." NY Times, Oct. 22, 1871 |
The directors of the Newport and
Alexandria Turnpike resolved
to give free passage to all travelers for the Fourth of July in 1876.
Map of Alexandria, 1883
from An Atlas of Boone, Kenton and Campbell
Counties, Kentucky, published by D. J. Lake & Co.
