Mostly Boone, but some Kenton in this 1866 Railroad Map
You'll want the key to what all those red lines are. It's
here.
New Banklick Baptist Church
Two from Ryland Heights
Three Views from Ryland Heights, 1943
Licking River Valley, c. 1955
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| Raising Chickens in Kenton County, 1924 |
Blackberry farming in Kenton County, 1928 |
The ladies of Oak Island Community can for the relief effort, 1931 |
All three of these were published by the Kentucky Agricultural Extension Service |
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A Scene in Park Hills, 1929
Dixie Highway, somewhere in Kenton County, c. 1918
Circa 1920, the Kentucky Highway Department published some
pictures of the progress
the state was making on road construction. The image on the left is a
Glutin Road (Glutin's a construction
material), State Aid 59c; and the road on the right demonstrates "Bermuda
Asphalt Penetration."
Both are listed as being in "Kenton County."
Bracht Depot
Bracht Depot, September, 1911
(a Kentuckiana Virtual Library image)
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The Bracht Piner Road was opened on December 18, 1926 and was described as the first road to connect "the eastern and western portions" of the Dixie Highway. The Covington Auto Club even debated which side was shortest. The resolution is here. |
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Dixie Heights |
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Schools Busses at Dixie, 1948
Edgewood / Erlanger Aerial
That's Dixie Heights in the top center
Odilo "Shorty" Siegrist advertising a Ft. Wright Festival at
5th and
Madison in Covington.
Ft. Wright named after General Horatio Gouveneur Wright, read about him here, or his Wikipedia article is here.
Fort Wright Fire Department
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Fort Wright has absorbed many smaller Kenton County communities over the years. South Hills was annexed in 1960, Lookout Heights in 1967, and Lakeview in 1977.
Read about the man for whom Fort Wright is named, Gen. Horatio G. Wright, at Wikipedia, here. |
Wilmington Baptist, Fiskburg
Taken at it's dedication, August, 1953
Read the story
here. (pdf)
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"Fiskburg is located on the Independence and Colesmanville [Harrison County] pike, 21 miles from Covington, and six miles from Morning View. We have a post office, school, church, blacksmith shop, one store, cigar factory, toll gate, doctor and preachers. We also have a Grange, Temple of Honor, and a Masonic Hall. We want and must have a pike from here to Morning View. The sooner the better." from the Newport Local, September 5, 1878. |
Thomas More College, c. 1973
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| Tunnel Hill, near Covington A Union outlook to watch for Confederate troops threatening Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Oct 4, 1862. |
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Camp King & Battery Overlook the Covington & Lexington RR. from The Pictorial War Record, c. 1880. But I find no Camp King in the listing to the left. |
Bank Lick Creek
Artist: G. N. Frankenstein ; Engraver: F. Humphreys.
This scene was published in an American literary and art
journal in 1849.
left, Northern Kentucky Health
Occupations
790 Thomas More Parkway
right, Northern Kentucky State Vocational
Technical School
1025 Amsterdam Road
Kenton County Tavern Rates, 1883
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Meals, each |
40 cts |
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Lodging |
40 cts |
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Common whiskey, per drink |
05 cts |
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All Other Whiskey, per drink |
10 cts |
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Brandy, rum, gin, wine, etc |
15 cts |
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Grain or feed, per gallon |
25 cts |
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Horses, per night, hay or grain |
40 cts |
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Pasturage, per day |
10 cts |
From the Covington Daily Commonwealth, April 24, 1883
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"In the County Court, yesterday, Thomas F. Holmes was granted the privilege of running a ferry for five years across the Licking river at the road leading from Independence to Alexandria." The Daily Commonwealth, September 28, 1880. |
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Atwood was named for Atwood Bird, a bank president in Independence whose grandfather came to the place now known as Atwood in 1813. Fiskburg was named for one Dr. Fisk; Nicholson was named for Dr. H. C. Nicholson, father of the noted builder George Nicholson; and Whites Tower was named for one George White, who farmed 300 acres in that area. |
The naming of Visalia, here.
General John Finnell's 1880 Raspberry Festival in Visalia, here.
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"At the late term of the Kenton County Court the right to run a ferry across Licking river from Visalia, or Canton, as it is more generally called, was granted to F. M. Kennedy for twenty years. He is to use a boat propelled by oars, 8 feet wide and 32 feet long, also a skiff 16 feet long and 4 feet wide. The rates of ferriage are fixed as follows: Foot passengers, 10 cents; horse 10 cents; sheep, hogs, and lambs, 2 cents each; hogsheads of tobacco, 10 cents; two wheeled carriage, or cart, 20 cents." from the Covington Journal, March 5, 1870. |
Iris Spoor's History of Park Hills is here. (pdf)
George C. Weidner's profile of Edgewood is here. (pdf)
Crestview Hills has its history on line here.
