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| On Prospect, looking south, toward 11th | North from Sixth & Main, Covington | What is now Route 8, in West Covington, 1930 |
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| "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. |
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| Covington Traffic Patterns, 1930 | Extension of 19th between Madison and Scott |
Re-routing Southern
Avenue near Decoursey in Latonia |
Extension of Scott to Madison |
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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. |
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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."
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| Court Street, from Park, Covington | Scott looking north from 3rd |
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| Fourth Street, West of
Madison, Covington |
South from 8th & Greenup |
15th and Russell, Covington |
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| Lawyers Building, 1922 Third and Scott |
Scott Street dead ends at Sterritt, 1930 |
Scott at Second, c. 1950 |
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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
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| Beautiful Residences, Greenup Street, Covington | Greenup, South from 13th, Covington | Section of Greenup Street, 1903 | Greenup at the River |
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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. |
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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. |
