A Few Campbell County Related Links

John Campbell, Campbell County's namesake, was the focus of a Jim Ries column, here.
Campbell was established on December 17, 1794, from parts of Mason, Scott and Harrison
Counties, and was Kentucky's 19th county formed.

The Kenton County Public Library's Places and Faces: Northern Kentucky Photographic Archive is on line here. They say there are 7,000 photo's here, and they're aiming for 30,000. Lots of Campbell County images are on the site.

"The town of Cincinnati has 300 families; it grew rapidly due to its army post, but as its location offers no advantage for commerce, very likely when the army has abandoned this place, all business now conducted there will mover on over to New-port which, on account of the Licking river facilities, offers all kinds of commercial opportunities." from Collot's Down the Ohio River, in 1796.

In 1876, the R. L. Polk Company published The Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, which listed information about virtually every town in Kentucky. The listings from Campbell County are these:

Alexandria	Dale	Dayton
Flagg Spring	Grant's Lick	Kane
Newport	Pond Creek	Ten Mile

You can find out more about Newport history, by
visiting the East Row Historic District, here.

This list of Campbell County deaths from WWII is from
the National Archives. There's a key to what the
various abbreviations mean here. The list:

You can find lots of additional Newport and Campbell
County images at the Cincinnati Public Library's site. Try here.

In 1969, Edna Talbott Whitley compiled a list of Cabinetmakers
in Kentucky. The Campbell County portion of that list is here.

In 1956, a Newport representative to the Kentucky legislature, Morris Weintraub, introduced a bill to merge the cities of Newport, Bellevue, Dayton, Fort Thomas, Southgate, Wilder and Woodlawn.

You know Fort Wright and Fort Mitchel, but can you place Northern Kentucky's
Fort Rich? Fort Perry? Here's a complete list of Civil War fortifications in Northern Kentucky

Information on the ten covered bridges that used to serve in Campbell County are listed in the data base at web site of Kentucky Covered Bridges, here.

The 1939 Campbell County Baptist Association published a list
of it's member churches, with membership and pastors, here.

Ever hear about Peter Kline being taken from a Newport jail on
March 17, 1879 and lynched in Fort Thomas?
Read the Enquirer's version here, and the follow-up here.

Newport, Kentucky, is named after a noted British Admiral, Christopher
Newport. You can read more about him here.

In 1919, there was a farm census, counting livestock, crops and farms. Campbell County's is here.

The Kentuckiana Digital Library has a number of Campbell
County images. Quality is erratic, but it's worth a look, here.

The Kentucky Historical Society's Campbell County images can
be found here. Click on the county search box when you get there.

In October of 1926, the Cincinnati Auto Club suggests this route from Cincinnati, through Kenton, Boone, Grant, Pendleton, Campbell and back to Cincinnati.

Covington's Mary Ann Mongren Library has one of those "Wow!" features online. If, after going here, and entering Alexandria, Southgate, Newport or whatever, you sometimes - not always - get back actual links to high quality images of Northern Kentucky Newspapers from the 1800's. I find it more helpful to sort them by the oldest article first. They're pdf images. There's a feature in your Adobe pdf viewer that let's you magnify the images. Play with it - I think you'll find it a great feature.

There have been over 45 differently named post offices in
Campbell County. The full list is here.

You can get information on Campbell County ancestors by subscribing
to the mailing list created for that purpose. You'll get periodic
information, and can submit your own questions, all via email.
Sign up here for Campbell County.
Here is a list of all available lists on Kentucky.

This is Leon Lippert, a noted artist and a contemporary of Duveneck, who lived in Newport, and did murals for a number of Northern Kentucky (see Corpus Christi in Newport, and Sacred Heart in Bellevue) and Cincinnati churches, among his other work. There's a nice web site devoted to his life and work, here. Copyrighted image used through the cooperation of the Art Leaf Publishing Company

A site that has posted a lot of older high school yearbooks
of Kentucky schools is here. They invite your scans.

Newport's William Steinmetz is Newport's winner of the US Medal of Honor because of his actions on May 22, 1863, as a member of Company G, 83rd Indiana Infantry. for "Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party."

A collection of photos from the Cincinnati, Newport
& Covington Railway (trolley cars) is here.

The Sociology Department at UK did a study in 1931 and found 111,452 radio's in 610,288 households. Campbell County had the highest ratio of any county in the state at 51% (Kenton was second at 48%, while Jefferson had 34%.) Fort Thomas led all cities with 73% of households having radios. Covington had 46% while Newport had 45%. - Louisville Courier Journal, 12-27-1931.

There's a site about Kentuckians of German ancestry who fought in
the Civil War, either for the Union or the Confederacy. It's here.

John Stevens was born in near Alexandria in 1796. He wrote a series of letters to the Newport Local in 1879 recounting the events of his early life, and life in early Campbell County. Follow the links below for the various letters.
January 2, 1879	January 9, 1879	January 16, 1879
January 23, 1879	January 30, 1879	February 6, 1879
	February 13, 1879

Horace Lurton, Supreme Court Justice, was born in Newport.
There's a biography here.

Who went to the penitentiary from Campbell County from
1808 to 1830, and why? There's a list, here.

There's a brief text of the History of Fort Thomas here.

The City of Newport's site is here.

Newport's William S. Bailey ran an anti-slavery newspaper
in Newport in the 1850's. Opposition to his paper was fierce,
according to his account, here.

Capt. William Frances Corbin and Lieut. T. Jefferson McGraw are
put to death for recruiting Confederate soldiers in Flagg Springs.
Read more about them here.

In 1867, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, a forerunner to the Reds, played the Holts of Newport three times. On May 30, Newport lost 82 to 33, on June 22, Newport lost 93 to 22, and on September 2, the Holts lost 109 to 15.

The Thompson submachine gun was created by Newport's own John Taliaferro Thompson.
There's a biography of him here, and a page on the Tommy Gun he created is here.

	This graph shows the relative populations of the eight smaller counties of Northern Kentucky Views, from 1800 to 2000.
	This graph shows the relative populations of the Boone, Kenton & Campbell Counties from 1800 to 2000.
	This graph shows the relative populations of the Boone, Kenton, Mason & Campbell Counties from 1800 to 1860, along with Jefferson and Fayette, just for reference.


These two charts both present slave population from Northern Kentucky. On the left is actual salve populations; on the left, is the number of slaves as a percentage of total population. Remember some counties were established later than others. More on these numbers, including a link to mega-load of population data, is here.

Campbell County, South Dakota		Campbell County, Tennessee

Campbell County, Virginia		Campbell County, Wyoming