On Prospect, looking south, toward 11th
North from Sixth & Main, Covington
What is now Route 8, in West Covington, 1930
The 518 Greenup Car at 12th street in
Covington on the last day of operation, July 1, 1950
Scenes Along The Green Line
Chart of Covington Street Car Statistics
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left, Northern End of the Green Line inside Cincinnati's Union Terminal, on Third Street, between Main and Vine |
| right, This Cincinnati scene shows how busses got into Union Terminal, straight off the Suspension Bridge |
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Scott Street dead ends at Sterritt, 1930
Twelfth Street, 1930
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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, and noting that the current 12th Street was too narrow. The traffic flow diagram below, and the three route change proposals below it are all from the same 1930 plan. |
Covington Traffic Patterns, 1930
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| Extension of 19th between Madison and Scott | Re-routing Southern Avenue near Decoursey in Latonia | Extension of Scott to Madison |
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"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. |
Union Light Heat & Power Co. Offices, 1956
640 Scott Street
left, Court Street, from Park, Covington
right,
Scott looking north from 3rd
15th and Russell, Covington
South from 8th & Greenup
Fourth Street, West of Madison, Covington
Lawyers Building, 1922
Third and Scott
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
Greenup, South from 13th, Covington
Greenup at the River
It's obvious in the above 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.
The Green Line turns onto Pike, going south, from Hermes
Beautiful Residences, Greenup Street, Covington
left,
Scott,
South from 17th, Covington, 1905
right,
Scott, South of Robins, Covington, 1905
A few tourist shots, entering Covington on US 25 & US 42
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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." |
