Butler, Kentucky

Matilda Street

 

                     

  Front and Matilda Streets, Butler Kentucky 

 


 Montgomery's Filling Station , Restaurant and Grocery on US 27
Thanks! for two of the above images go to Janet Costigan!

 

Berlin Hotel, Butler  Village Blacksmith, Butler 

Butler Mercantile, 1967

 

Butler Deposit Bank
Established October 3. 1892.

New Bank coming to Butler?  Read more  here.

C. C. Hagemeyer & Mill
More on Hagemeyer, here.

Map of the Hagemeyer Mills
How to see the entire map, here.

Reasons for the decline of the mill are in this story. 


 

Looking North-west
from Hog-back Hill,
Butler, Kentucky

Flour Creek, Butler
Flour Creek's name used
 to be Flower Creek. 

Licking River at Butler, Kentucky

Scene Near Butler, 1924

 

 

Grant's Lake Scenes.  All circa 1905 except lower left, c. 1929.

           

Griffin Industries, Butler

Griffin Industries, Butler
That's Edwin Orr on the truck

 

L & N Foreman's
Home, Butler

The Delevan was a Sears and Roebuck Home, c. 1920. They sold one of this model to Fort Wayne, Indiana, Hubbard, Michigan, Niles, Ohio, and Butler, Kentucky.

E. B. Bradley Home, c. 1898. Who was E. B. Bradley?  A short bio is here.

 

 

Butler, 1883

A really nice description of Butler from 1879 is here.  

William Jones' 1889 History of Butler, here.
      USPS records show the first Post Office in what is now Butler was established on March 10, 1857, with Richard M. J. Wheeler as Postmaster.  On July 31, 1860, the name was changed to Butler, and John A. Shaw was named Postmaster.  The post office was discontinued entirely from June 8, 1861 to July 9, 1861.

Mabel Howe's History of Butler is here.

Governor Morrow comes to town to dedicate Boy Scout Camp, here.
"We learn from Mr. Wood Wilson, Conductor of the Falmouth Accommodation Train, that the store of J. F. Taylor, at Butler Station, was destroyed by fire about one o'clock yesterday morning.  Loss about $3,000; partially insured.  The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary."  from the Cincinnati Enquirer, August 21, 1867.
On April 8, 1865 a Pendleton County court noted a contract between Benjamin Yelton and James Ayars Jr., of Covington, to "dig, bare, and search for petroleum or rock oil or other vegetable of mineral produce" on "a tract of about 2 acres on east bank of Main Licking River near Butler Station on the KCRR & between Roaring Riffle and Lick Creek Riffle, being the piece of ground known as Yelton's Old Salt Mill.

Hundreds search for a man sent to the distillery at Butler, here.

 "The Public Library at Butler contains sixty volumes.  The Astor Library was commenced with a common school dictionary."
  from The Ticket, a Covington newspaper, January 22, 1876.

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