The First St. Joseph's
from a Facebook post by Johannah Moran
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St. Joseph Orphanage Cold Spring, 1922 |
St. Joseph's Orphanage stood at the corner of US 27 and Industrial Road, where DAV is today |
Holly Hill Protestant Children's Home, founded in 1884 |
“Bishop Maes will dedicate St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, at Cold Spring, Ky., July 14.” Courier Journal, July 7, 1889 | ||
Fire at the orphanage in 1884. |
National Headquarters for Disabled Veterans stands where the St. Joseph's Orphanage used to be.
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Grayson's Inn, Cold Spring a.k.a. Buckskin Bev's, Guys and Dolls, the Plantation, etc., etc. |
Cold Spring VFD | Cold Spring/Crestivew VFD from a Facebook post by Johannah Moran |
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Campbell County Home, “Cold Springs” |
Campbell County Infirmary, 1922 |
Census of Northern Kentucky's Paupers in Almshouses, 1910, here. |
Bank of Alexandria, c. 1970
Cold Spring Baptist can trace its origins to 1794. Do you get how far back 1794 is in N Ky history?? | Gunfight between Macedonians and Bulgarians on the streets of Cold Spring, here. | |
Rev. Paul Ryan's history of St. Joseph's church is here. | Cold Spring fights smallpox inmates. | |
“A patent has been issued by the US Government to John Lightfoot, of Cold Spring, Ky., for an improved door-fastener.” Daily Courier, May 16, 1860 | ||
The history of St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cold Spring is here (pdf). | ||
Years ago Cold Spring was named Reese's Settlement. | The Burr family of Cold Spring and an estate of $3,000,000. In 1882. Here. (pdf) | Voters arrested and tied to trees in Cold Spring, in 1866, here. |
“Coldspring, Ky., Oct. 4. - A ten-mile march through Coldspring is made daily by the soldiers of Ft. Thomas. Thursday the hospital corps marched to Coldspring and took position in the play ground of the Coldspring seminary, from which they signaled with a heliograph [Wikipedia] to the large water tower in Ft. Thomas. Signals could be readily read at Ft. Thomas, and by men at Coldspring also. The flashes could be seen for many miles. Corporal Dale, who was in charge of the corps at Coldspring, delivered an interesting talk to the pupils of the Coldspring seminary upon the life of a soldier and the hardships and battles engaged in during the Spanish-American war.”from the Maysville Daily Public Ledger, October 4, 1901 |