Ghent, Kentucky

Main Cross Street, Ghent, circa 1910
both, Published by the Driskell Brothers of Ghent

Click Here for a history of Ghent from the Carroll County Tourism site.

"Main Street Looking Toward River," Ghent, c. 1920

Street Scene, Ghent, c. 1910

Left, An aerial view of Ghent, from Scott's Hill
The Ghent postcard has not been mailed, but is addressed to
Miss Ruth Graham, Warsaw, KY, "Hi You kid, You can just bet I
did tell C. what you said. Thanks for the pictures. Weren't
you really glad I left? My departure seems to have brought
you a streak of luck. Well, I am having a dandy time too. Call me up.
Lovingly, Agnes
right, The Ghent Methodist Church

Grand Opening of Scotland Gardens in Ghent was on July 4, 1934. Under new management at that point, it advertised a "Special Feature - Dancing," from 1 to 6 pm and from 8 pm to ?. Music was by the Dillebar Orchestra from Louisville. Tickets for both sessions, $1 per couple. They advertised swimming and picnic grounds would be open. B. B. Robertson and H. M. Cogswell were the managers.

Lick Creek, near Ghent
While the card says "near Ghent", Lick
Creek runs from Bramlette to Sanders

Ghent Baptist Church, Inside and Out
Courtesy Kentucky Historical Society
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This house is at the foot of Ferry Street in Ghent, Kentucky (over the hill from the Baptist Church). There is a deed showing a house stood on the exact same spot as early as 1819, and it might be the same house. Another memoir of Ghent dated the house to 1840. It was the Charles Lake Keene Jr. home, later the home of his daughter Nannie Keene and her husband Joshua Morris "Dot" Craig, later the home of Dolly Craig and Henry "Mac" Smith, then it belonged to their daughter Caby Jean Smith Sibley, and is now the home of Caby Jean's son, Tom Sibley.

The Walton Craig Home, Ghent
left, You can see the old Ghent College in the background.
More about the Walton Craig home here.

Citizens of Ghent hold a meeting in 1859. New York Times notices it, and mocks it, in a story here.

In 1931, there were four chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the area covered by Northern Kentucky Views: Newport, Covington, Maysville, and Ghent. Details on the Ghent chapter are found here.

"A Ghent serenader sang 'I'm thinking love, of thee' when the descent of about four gallons of water from a second story window proved that her papa was thinking of him." from Carrollton's Daily Democrat, October 13, 1870

"The Ghent Post Office is being moved into the Gay Griffith Building on the corner of Main Cross and Union Street." Gallatin County News, Nov. 1, 1934

It's said that the builder of the new jail in Ghent, sometime in the 1800's, spent some of his
earnings for the job on alcohol, became drunk, and was the first man locked up in the jail.

There's a web site dedicated to reporting how clean, or dirty, various
power plants are. Click around on their site, h ere. Ghent the
most polluting power plant in Kentucky? They say yes.

"Last Saturday night there was a huge row in the Colored Baptist Church at Ghent during a church entertainment, the participants all being Negroes. Pistols and knives were freely drawn, but the only one hurt was Al Cheatham, who received a painful but not dangerous cut." - The Daily Commonwealth, November 21, 1883.

The steamer Gen. Buell was detained at Ghent and Warsaw by the
Confederate home guard. In 1866. Read the story here.

"Joshua Wayland, who lives just back of Ghent, killed 600 rabbits with a shotgun during the winter. He shipped most of them to Cincinnati." Carrollton Democrat, February 8, 1879

The 1908 Carroll County Yearbook says that
Ghent "has always been noted for its high educational
attainments, and some of the best informed and
brainiest people of Kentucky have their homes there."

from the Carrollton Democrat, September 14, 1878. "A lively sensation was created last Friday evening by the educated bear kept at the buggy factory. He got out of his cage and while passing J. K. Pope's store spied a hog and gave chase. The hog ran into the meat shop and the bear pursued. As soon as the bruin saw the fresh beef, he ceased pursuit. He was got back to his cage with some difficulty, and has been docile ever since. People along the street, especially the ladies in the millinery shop, enjoyed the scene with much zest."


Keene Drug Company's Store	Harris Pool Room	Ghent Barber Shop. That's Sim Lowry in the left chair