View up the Licking River, Newport,
Kentucky, 1908
to Mabel Burnwell, Linden Heights, Ohio,
Have been in Covington since Sunday and am not married yet.
It doesn't effect all people the same. Clara.
Looking North on the Licking, c. 1880
A Poem and a Licking River Scene
Poem by Henry Sorrell of Covington
What does the Licking River have to do with the naming
of the City of Cincinnati? Glad you asked. Click
here.
Aerials of the Licking Valley
Licking River
An early Licking River drawing
This early (c. 1795) map of Kentucky
reflects the earlier name of the
Licking - The Salt Spring River, since it flowed to Kentucky's
Blue Licks.
On the Picturesque Licking River, 1909
Licking River at Banklick Creek
Licking River, at Newport
Civil War Soldiers Fording the Licking
Harpers ran two other pictures and an article with
the above lithograph. You can read the article,
here.
Wikipedia has a page on the Licking River, here.
Citizens petitioned to make the Licking navigable in 1899.
The government declined it. Details and maps are
here.
| Remember when the Licking River flowed north to Hamilton, Ohio, and the Kentucky River turned northeast at Carrollton and headed for Cincinnati? No? That’s because you were born after the last glacier left the area. Read all about it, here. |
| "A petrified buffalo head was found in the bottom of the Licking River about one hundred yards above the Dead Man Ripple in Kenton County in 1858. The petrification was somewhat worn by the current, but the eyes, ears, teeth, mouth horns, hair and mane were well developed. It was sold to a Cincinnati museum for one dollar." - from a Bill Wall item in the Louisville Courier Journal in the 1930's. |
