St. Joseph in the Hills, c 1950
Camp Springs, Kentucky
J. Winston Coleman ran a weekly series in the Lexington
Herald featuring
various Kentucky sites. On 2-21-1965, he picked St. Joseph's. See it
here.
(pdf)
Camp Springs is on the web. Contemporary pictures and a history of the area are on their web site, here.
Camp Springs Fire Department
The Exploding of the Moselle was one
of the worst ever steamboat disasters.
on April 25, 1832.
You can read the full story, here.
The wrecked hull of the Moselle was found when they excavated the piers for the
L&N RR Bridge, built in 1872.
St. John's Rally Day, 1915
Probably in 1929, Campbell
County Judge William C. Buten, who
was running for re-election, distributed
a set of 16 postcards in a folder, below,
designed to show, pictorially, the
accomplishments of his prior
term. While the original is one piece,
you can click on individual images to get
larger images.
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Camp Springs |
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from the Kentucky Journal, of October 18, 1900: |
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A graphaphone concert and festival will be given Saturday evening, October 10, at Uthe's Hall for the benefit of the Tug-Fork School. Two hours of enjoyment will be furnished by that wonderful instrument which reproduces the songs of noted singers, popular selections by famous bands and comic recitations by well known comedians. |
On the ferry at Brent
The Ranch House, 1954
US 27, 17 Miles South of Cincinnati
Ultra Modern - Air Conditioned
Electric - Gas heat - Television - Tasty Food
Valley View Motel
Free Fishing for Guests
20 Miles south of Cincinnati on US 27
The 7 Mile House, on Licking Pike, run by the Kennewec family
Thanks to Ken Chambers for these.
Around 1920, the Kentucky Highway Department published some
pictures of some
of their modern roads. They were, however, a little vague on exact
location.
That's "State Aid 19a" on the right; 19C on the left.
St Johns Catholic Church & Parsonage,
John's Hill
(not to be confused with an old St. John's Evangelical Church on
Pooles Creek)
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WM. R. (Rus) Stevens writes about the Highways to Beech Grove, here. (pdf) |
Rev. Paul Ryan's History of St. John's from 1954 is here.
Steamboat Lancaster disaster, 1855 near Steptoe,
here.
(Steptoe is near the present day Mentor)
Dam #35, near Oneonta
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Oneota is an Indian word, but the town of Oneota is named after Oneota, New York, birthplace of Henry E. Huntington, nephew and successor to railroad magnate Colis P. Huntington. Colis and his brother owned a successful business in Oneota, and Henry E. was born there. |
left, Carthage Road - New Richmond Ferry
center, New Richmond Ferry
right, New Richmond from Campbell Co.
The birthplace of Civil War General and
US President Ulysses S.
Grant is across the Ohio River from Mentor, in Point Pleasant, Ohio
Paul Deisel, Carthage, Kentucky
(If you can shed any light on who, what or
where on this one, please email me, here.)
A. J. Jolly
list of names here.
left, Aerial View of Mentor, circa 1910
right, Mentor Baptist Church
left, Taylor H. Berry Farm,
Indian Spring
right, Lemuel T. Pyle Farm, Indian Spring
The Steamer Magnolia's boiler exploded
on March 18, 1868 near California, Kentucky.
Nearly 70 people lost their lives.
Twelve Mile First Baptist Church, in flood
St. Peter & Paul
Map of California, 1883
list of businesses in California in 1883, here.
"Mrs. Julia Arthur, who was appointed principal of the
California (Ky) school, has resigned."
from The Freeman, A National Colored Newspaper,
August 23, 1890
Campbell County Homemakers, 1936 and 1932
Campbell County's first settlement was at Leitch's Station,
on the Licking.
Helen Bradley Lindsey's account of it is
here.
(pdf)
Mrs. John D. Ellis' Sketch of the Old Christian Church at California is here. (pdf)
W. T. Clary detects earthquake in Claryville, here.
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"The Bintz Site" is a Fort Ancient era archeological site that was excavated as part of the building of the Mary Ingles highway, near where the Ohio River and Twelve Mile Creek. You can read it here. (pdf) |
Uprising at Comer's Camp, a Flagg Spring prison camp, in 1887, here.
US Gen Web has a history of the Flagg Spring Baptist Church, here.
