St. Joseph, in the Hills, c 1950
Camp Springs, Kentucky

 

Camp Springs Fire Department

 

The Exploding of the Moselle was one of the worst ever steamboat  disasters.
You can read the full story, here.

 

 

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.

 

Camp Springs 

from the Kentucky Journal, of October 18, 1900:

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.

 

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.

 

St Johns Catholic Church & Parsonage, John's Hill
(not to be confused with an old St. John's Evangelical Church on Pooles Creek)

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

 

 

left, Carthage Road - New Richmond Ferry
right, New Richmond from Campbell Co.


 

The first Drees Home is this house in Wilder

 

Aerial View of Wilder, 1981

 

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.)

 

YMCA Camp Meacham, Mentor

 

Aerial View of Mentor, circa 1910

 

 

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.

US Gen Web has a history of the Flagg Spring Baptist Church, here.



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