Motier
 
Also called Stepstone, a small village on the Ohio river, in the northeastern part of Pendleton county, 15 miles from Falmouth, the county seat, 186 by river or 138 by rail from Louisville, and 8 from Butler Station, on the Kentucky Central R.R., its nearest shipping point by rail. Its exports are tobacco, hogs, wheat, corn and wine. Tri-weekly mail. Population 20. H.J. Carnes, postmaster.

 
Business Directory

 

Fossit, S.H., general store.
Hobbs, Carnes & Co., General Store and Leaf Tobacco Dealers.
Rath, Jacob, hotel and general store.
 
This info is from the Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, published in 1876-77 by R. L. Polk in Louisville. Items in bold were bolded in the original