i.e., Other than Devou Park
The New Eleventh Street Park | The Eleventh Street Park |
The Eleventh Street Park was previously the site of a market building
Goebel Park Playgrounds | Goebel Park Shelter House | Goebel Park |
The Goose Girl Fountain in Mainstrasse Park, dedicated in 1980, was
inspired by a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm, which you can read on
this site.
Withers Park, now Park Place. That's the Traction Building on the right,
and the trolley tracks are heading across the Suspension Bridge
from a Facebook post by Matt Mansu
Caroline Williams sketches Sixth Street
Sixth Street Park |
View of the Sixth Street |
Sixth Street Park c. 1908 |
Sixth Street Park 1916 |
Read about the origins of MainStrasse and the Sixth Street park, as a market, at the Kentucky Tribune's web site, here.
Carroll Chimes Bell Tower |
MainStrasse, Covington |
Cincinnati Enquirer, January 23, 1937
There are seven statutes of notable Kenton
County/Northern Kentucky area folks at the George Rogers Clark Park
on the Covington riverfront. Curiously,
George Rogers Clark is
not one of them. |
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John Roebling, designer of the Suspension Bridge, has a bio here. |
Richard J. Miller is the sculptor. | |
Simon Kenton. There's a site devoted to the man for whom Kenton County is named, here. |
You can read the Kenton Statute plaque here. Sculptor is Robert Koepnick. |
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Capt. Mary Greene, one of the very few women who were steamboat pilots, has a biography here. |
You can read the Greene Statute plaque here. Michael Price is the sculptor. |
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James Bradley, noted abolitionist, and an active conductor on the Underground Railroad. Once a slave in Pendleton County, he wrote an account, in 1834, of how he worked to buy himself out of slavery. Read it here. |
You can read the Bradley Statute plaque here. George Danhires is the sculptor. |
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Little Turtle, a Miami Indian leader who led several successful battles against early American settlers, has a bio here. |
You can't read the Little Turtle Statute plaque - vandals stole it. Robert Koepnick is the sculptor. |
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John James Audubon, famous painter of birds, spent some time in Covington. His bio is here. |
You can read the Audubon Statute plaque here. Elliott and Ivan Schwartz are the sculptors. |
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Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts. His bio at Wikipedia is here. |
You can read the Beard Statute plaque here. Ken Bradford is the sculptor. |
Melton Park? It was incorporated in South Covington in 1876. In 1876 “South Covington” could be pretty much anywhere south of Holmes. |
Garfield's Park, Covington?
That's what it says, but we think we've got a mislabeled card here.
We think it's Cincinnati's Garfield Park. We've also seen cards of the
“Covington Zoo,”
and “Fountain Square, Covington, Ky.”