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

 

    

Heidelberg Pleasure Resort
It was near where St. Therese 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."

 

Tornado of 1917

 

The New Heidelberg

 

Southgate Methodist Church, circa 1910

 

Specht's Pharmacy, Walnut & Electric, Southgate

 

City Hall, c. 1938

 

Lake Albert, 1927

 

Wm. Speck  & Co.. Florists, 1910
at the corner of Willow and Alexandria Pike

 

Evergreen Cemetery
left, Chapel 
right, 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.

 

      

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.



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