Part Three
 

The S. H. Knox Five and Ten Cents Store
 The Busy Store of Our City 
On the west side of Madison, near 7th

 

Herzog Jewelry Store

 

The Stewart Iron Works, Covington
 The Stewart Iron works was, and is, on the west
 side of Madison, near 17th.  Their web site is here.

 Thanks! to Nancy and Dennis Hanseman for the above image.

 

   

Interior Views at Stewart Iron Works
These men are working on one of most important products
 of Stewart Iron Works - jail cells.  The jail cells of Alcatraz - and
hundred of other jails -  came from Covington, Kentucky.

 

 

Stewart Iron Works, c. 1960's

 

Advertising piece from Stewart Iron Works

 

Advertising piece from Stewart Iron Works

Overman Schrader Cordage Company, Covington

 

 

  

Sebastian Lathe, 1922
southeast corner of 3rd & Philadelphia
interior scene is 1901

 

Licking Rolling Mill, 1901
between 11th & 12th, on the Licking

 

1904 Location 1905 Location 1917 Location
 

 

  
J. Rob. Kelly Alb. Koett

 

The Kelley - Koett Manufacturing Co.
Largest X-ray machine manufacturers in the USA
212 W. 4th St, Covington

A history of the firm from 1924 is here.

     

 

Davezac's Building on Court Street, 1892

 

 

J. M. Rude's Wire Goods,
left, 1897;   right, 1901

 

    

left, Chas. Donnelly, Undertaker, 1890
right, John Arink, Fashionable Merchant Tailor, 1890

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