a.k.a. Anderson’s Ferry

 

Seen from the Ohio Side
Note hillside signs

 

Boone #4, from the days when you would stand in the rain to get your picture taken. from a Facebook post by Vanishing Cincinnati	Ice of 1917-18 at the Ferry Landing	Boone #4

 

Boone #4
Why it's in the city, we don't know.

 

Kottmyer’s Ferry,  a.k.a.  Anderson's Ferry Boone No. 5		Boone No. 5	Boone No. 5 Anderson Ferry in the  Ice, 1918

 

Boone #5 from a Facebook post from the Behringer-Crawford Museum	Boone #5	Boone #5 or #6, September 16, 1922. From a Facebook post by Dori Ostenkamp Lucas.

 

A 1929 feature story on the ferry.

Charles Kottmyer	Henry Kottmyer Cincinnati Post, May 5, 1939	Oliver Kottmyer

The obituary of Louis T. Kottmyer

George Anderson bought the ferry and adjoining properties on August 30, 1817 from Raleigh Colston for $351.87; Charles Kottmyer bought it in 1865.  Kottmyer is the man that started naming boats Boone Number x.  The boats aren't named for the county, but rather the man for whom the county was named - Daniel Boone. Until 1867, horses on a treadmill supplied power for the ferry. More at the site of the Boone County Library.

Boone No. 6

 

Boone #7 debuts
Cincinnati Enquirer, June 22, 1937
from a Facebook post by Robert Wendel

 

1944

Boone No. 7

The home on the ferry property, taken in 1976.
From a Facebook post by Karen Phillips Kilz

Scene at Anderson's Ferry		Anderson Ferry a Dusk

January 28, 1940. You didn't need a ferry; you could walk on the ice. You're looking toward Ohio. From a Facebook post by Kevin Rogenski

 

In the 1997 flood
From a Facebook post by Matt Martin

 

In 1917, the ferry had to be sold at the court house door. More here.
The ferry's web site, with lots of nice contemporary images, is here.	Constance Ferry Rates, February 17, 1904, here.
The Anderson Ferry is on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

The Anderson Ferry