Assembly Building, Falmouth

Highway Department
Building, c. 1927

  Shelby Avenue, Looking
 West, Falmouth

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.  It was used by the KKK and the Odd Fellows as well as the Masons.  The third floor was added later; the original building is from 1873. This image is c. 1910.

Aerial View of Falmouth

  Shelby Avenue, Looking
West from Main

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


 

             

Falmouth Street Scenes
 

Old High School, Falmouth, 1913  "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" New High School,
 Falmouth, 1925
 

Leaving Falmouth
 High School, 1965

1968 was the year of the last graduating class from Falmouth High School
      Pendleton County operated a "Colored School" in Falmouth in the 1930's but not a high school.  Black students who wanted to go to high school (and we're talking about a time when high school was a stretch for any and all races), were sent to Lincoln Institute, room and board paid, a Black High School near Simpsonville operated by the folks from Berea College.  More on Lincoln Institute at this site.
Chris Wilson, for his 1940 master's thesis at the University of Cincinnati, wrote about the reorganization of the Pendleton County Schools in 1934.  Titled The Reorganization of a County School District - Pendleton County, Kentucky, you can get it through interlibrary loan from your local library.  It's pretty thorough, and very detailed.  It was a time when the county was eliminating high schools and consolidating one-room schools.  Some of his high school population numbers are here, and a pdf with a detailed list of all the 1934  one-room schools, as well as those from 1922, is here.  Good stuff.

Looking north
 on Main Street		 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.

Falmouth is named after Falmouth, Virginia

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

William Jennings Bryan comes to Falmouth, here. 

Falmouth suffered a loss of about $40,000 early this morning and not a cent of insurance.  McDonald’s Distillery, flour mill and ware-house caught fire about two o’clock and were completely destroyed.  The fire is supposed to have been occasioned by the bursting of a column.  The machinery was new and had been in but a few weeks.  The work of rebuilding will at once be commenced."     Covington's Kentucky Journal, Thursday, March 21, 1893

      Dr. H. C. Clark's 1928 When Falmouth Was a Babe in Swaddling Clothes is here (pdf)      

In 1928, the L & N Employees Magazine ran a feature story on Falmouth.  You can read the entire article here.  (pdf) 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."  Covington's The Ticket, on May 8, 1877,

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