Looking down what is now US 42.  Christian Church on the right	Corner of Main and Girard, 1910

 

Tollgate on early highways.
A word or two on Florence Tollgates is here.

 

       The Florence Fair

 

“The Road just before reaching Stringtown”

 

“The Hangman's Tree” near the intersection at what is now Camp Ernst Road and 18	One of Lloyd's book is about a Jewish peddler from Florence named Felix Moses.  This is Felix Moses on his mule.	“Under the Old Locust Tree of Stringtown.” Identities of the five individuals are here

 

“Stringtown on the Pike”	“View of Stringtown”	“View from Stringtown Pike, photographed by Mrs. J. U. L.”  Name on the barrel is A. Scheben

 

On December 2, 1900, the Courier-Journal ran this feature story on Florence, and the background locations of Lloyd's novels.

All of the images on this page are used through the kindness
of the Cincinnati's Lloyd Library.  They're on the web, here.