On Prospect, looking south, toward 11th North from Sixth & Main, Covington What is now Route 8, in West Covington, 1930


 

"The Holman car heads north at Holman and
 Linden, through the heart of the then largely German-speaking portion of Covington, circa
 1914.  Considerably more than half of the
 residents in 1914 subscribed to German
 language newspapers, but anti-Kaiser
 sentiment, by the end of World War 1 no
 such newspapers existed." 
Terry Lehmann and Earl W. Clark in The Green Line.
The image of 12th Street above is from
Covington's 1930 Strategic Plan for its future. 
The planners advocated a wider 12th Street,
noting the need for an improved East-West
 route thru the city, because the the current 12th Street was too narrow. 

 

Covington Traffic Patterns, 1930 Extension of 19th
 between Madison
 and Scott
Re-routing Southern
Avenue  near Decoursey
 in Latonia
Extension of
Scott to Madison
The traffic flow diagram, and the three route change proposals here are all from the same
1930 Strategic Plan mentioned above.    You can read the whole plan at Google Books.

"Purchase of eight traffic lights, to be installed in the near future at Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and Eleventh Street intersections with Scott Street; Sterrett and Madison Avenue; Pike & Holman Streets; Fifth and Madison; and Ritte's Corner in Latonia was determined upon by Covington City Commissions, meeting in conference recently. Commissioners decided to install six traffic lights as a preliminary step toward a complete traffic system in Covington." 
from Motour: The Magazine of the Cincinnati Automobile Club, May, 1928.

Court Street, from Park, Covington Scott looking north from 3rd

 

Fourth Street, West of
Madison, Covington
South from 8th
& Greenup
15th and Russell,
 Covington

 

Lawyers Building, 1922
Third and Scott
Scott Street dead
ends at Sterritt, 1930
Scott at Second,
c. 1950

 

Scott, South from 17th,
 Covington, 1905
Scott, South of Robins,
Covington, 1905

 

Quality Corner, 4th and Scott, Covington
to Mrs. Elizabeth Grunow, FRD 9, Jackson, Mich, c/o Mrs. A. D. Palmer. 
Dear Sister, Dear old Ky is some town we just came over on the old brige,
 it is the grand old site of your life. well be home soon, sister Evelyn

Beautiful Residences, Greenup Street, Covington Greenup, South from 13th, Covington Section of Greenup Street, 1903 Greenup at
the River
It's obvious in the above right image that Greenup lines up with Cincinnati's Walnut
 Street (and Covington's Scott Street lines up perfectly with Cincinnati's Vine Street), so
how is it that the Suspension Bridge doesn't line up with either???  Find out here.

 

A few tourist shots, entering Covington on US 25 & US 42

Covington is named for Leonard Covington, whose father came from a noble family from the Neubreisach neighborhood of Alsace (and who, in 1697 wrote his name not as the anglicized "Covington," but as the German "Kurfingthan").
Covington, Ky., is on the lower side of the Licking river, built on a fine plain mostly above the highest floods of the Ohio. A steam-ferry unites it with Cincinnati, and a suspension-bridge is about to be built across the Licking connecting it with Newport. The streets are laid out so as to appear, from high ground, like a continuation of the city of Cincinnati on the opposite bank of the river. It contains a fine city-hall, several churches, printing-offices, a Baptist theological college, a cotton and silk factory, tobacco-factories, ropewalks, etc. Pop. about 12,000.
from Appleton's Southern and Western Travellers' Guide, 1849
"Mr. Charles Trantwein at one time a saloon-keeper on Madison street, and at present residing on the corner of Seventh and Craig, has met with a loss of nearly all his moveable furniture and his wife, who went off together last Saturday night.  The woman was Mr. Trantwein's second wife, and he threatens to shoot any one who brings her back while he offers a liberal reward for the recovery of the furniture." from Covington's The Ticket, November 2, 1875.

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