Southgate, Kentucky

Entrance to Evergreen Cemetery, c. 1910
A brief history of Evergreen is here.

Heidelberg Pleasure Resort
It was near where St. Therese School is today on US 27

Aerial of Heidelberg Resort

This is the first location of St. Therese, established August 15, 1927
in the building which formerly housed Heidelberg Resort. The current
St. Therese is built on the same site.

An 1874 magazine, Chic, said that the Heidelberg Garden was a 5 cent trolley ride from Cincinnati, and that proprietor Kettenacker had set it up for families, with swings, bowling alleys, and "Wiedemann's famous Bohemian Beer always on tap."

One visitor's rave review is here.

The New Heidelberg


Southgate Methodist Church, circa 1910	Southgate Business District, 1948	Tornado of 1915 Find out much more about this devastating storm here.


Specht's Pharmacy, Walnut & Electric, Southgate	Wm. Speck & Co.. Florists, 1910 at the corner of Willow and Alexandria Pike	Term Finance on Alexandria Pike

City Hall, c. 1938


Lake Albert, 1927	Bell Acres, 1948


Evergreen Cemetery Chapel	Evergreen Cemetery Shelter House

The Blue Grass Inn, in the Beautiful
Kentucky Highlands, Southgate, Kentucky
The All Seasons Hotel is reached via Alexandria
Pike by auto or Monmouth Street Cars, only 17
minutes from Fountain Square, Cincinnati, O. European Plan.
Frank N. Schoonmaker, proprietor.

Bluegrass Avenue was originally designed as an entrance to the Bluegrass Inn, which was at the top of the hill about where the Southgate/Newport line is. From its construction in 1907-08, to its eventual opening on May 19, 1910, to a fire on Feb. 7, 1915, it was never profitable, and went thru a series of owners, suits and bankruptcies.

Blue Grass Inn Menu, 1913

Early Southgate Fire Departments


The Southgate Fire Engine, circa 1940		Southgate Fire Department, 1941

Cliff Specht's amended history
of Southgate is here.

The Rev. Paul E. Ryan's
History of St. Therese is here.