Assembly Building, Falmouth

 

Highway Department Building, c. 1927

 

to Mr. Chas. Hanselman, 540 W. 7th St, Cincinnati, Oh.  Hotel Harrison.  Hello Chas! I am having a good time, lots of snow and rabbits.  Hope you enjoyed a good Xmas.  Suppose you are teaching the "brothers" how to  waltz by now.  Your friend, Jenie 

The Methodist Church, and the Applegate Block, Falmouth, 1916

 

    

The Methodist Church, South, Falmouth
left, 1914
 

The Falmouth Methodist Church, also called Mary's Chapel, is the oldest church still in use in Falmouth.  Falmouth's first miller, Augustus Robbins, built it in 1854 in memory of his wife Mary.  Note some images have steeples and some don't.  Also, the second story is a later addition to the Robbins structure, which was originally one story.

 

 

Falmouth Baptist Church, 1940
A few words about the history of Falmouth Baptist are here.

Thanks to Cheryl York for a much more detailed look at Falmouth Baptist, here.

 

St. Frances Xavier Catholic Church, c. 1950

The caption says this is the Masonic Temple, and it was, but you more likely know it as Houchen's Clothes and Shoes, operating in this location from 1939 to 1997.  Used by the KKK and the Odd Fellows as well as the Masons.  The third floor was added in 1873; the original building is from 1873. This image is from c. 1910.

 

 

  Shelby Avenue, Looking West from Main, Falmouth, c. 1910

 

Aerial View of Falmouth

 

 

Falmouth Street Scene

 

  Shelby Avenue, Looking West from Main

 

 

Old and New High Schools, Falmouth
left, 1913, right, 1925
left: to Mrs. Maggie Weber, R. #1, Mentor, KY
Hello Babe! I got here all O.K. & am knocking
the black out of everything so far. I hope you
got home safe & sound. Joe

1968 was the year of the last graduating class from Falmouth High School

 

 Shelby Avenue, Looking West, Falmouth

 

  

left, looking north on Main Street
right, looking south on Main Street

 

Falmouth Post Office, 1941

 

Shelby Avenue, Looking West from Main, Falmouth
 

 

Scenes of the April 23, 1968 Falmouth Tornado

 

This map is keyed to this document, which is a walking tour of
Falmouth, with details on the various buildings noted on the map.
Interesting stuff.

From Covington's The Ticket, on May 8, 1877, we learn that in Falmouth, "Sneak thieves carried off about forty dollars' worth of underwear left to soak in a tub in Mr. Herold's yard, on Pike street, last night; also a half dozen chickens."

In 1928, the L & N Employees Magazine ran a feature story on Falmouth.  You can read the entire article here.  (pdf)

The story of the 1887 lynching of William Jackson, here.

William Jennings Bryan comes to Falmouth, here. 

The Rev. Paul Ryan's History of St. Francis Xavier is here, his account
of the Immaculate Conception Mission at Stepstone is here, and notes
on the St. John's Mission at Dividing Ridge is here.

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