Butler, Kentucky

 

Matilda Street

 

  

  Front and Matilda Streets, Butler Kentucky 

 


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

 

left, Berlin Hotel, Butler  
right, Village Blacksmith, Butler 

New Bank coming to Butler?  Read more  here.

Scene Near Butler, 1927

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 
 

 

Scenes at Grant's Lake, c. 1905

 

Butler Deposit Bank
Established October 3. 1892.

 

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

 

Licking River at Butler, Kentucky

 

Griffin Industries, Butler

 

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

 

L & N Foreman's Home, Butler

 

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

 

Butler, 1883

William Jones' 1889 History of Butler, here.

Mabel Howe's History of Butler is here.

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."

"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.

Governor Morrow comes to town to dedicate Boy Scout Camp, 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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