Howard Beeson's Rocking Chair Lodge
3 miles south of Florence, Kentucky on US 25

 

Lawrence and Maude Daugherty's store in Devon. That's Clyde and Lillian Daugherty on the tractor. Thanks to Les Daugherty for these.  More info from Les is here.

Crescent Valley, or perhaps just Crescent, applied to have its own post office in 1887,
but the name was declined, and they settled instead on the name Devon.

 

Devon Toll Gate
From a Facebook post by Dale Ashcraft

 

Carroll Cropper Bridge Construction
From a Facebook post by Marty Cahill
Who was Carroll Cropper? The Boone County Library knows.

Bridge construction was from 1968-1977, but it was announced earlier. In 1952.

 

Covered bridge thought to have been located in Boone County. It may well be Burlington, Ohio.
From a Facebook post by Boone County Borderlands Archive and History Center

 

Details about Boone County's covered bridges

 

New Haven Grill, 1969	New Haven School, 1969	S. D. “Doc” Edwards, chicken broiler plant, New Haven

 

New Haven Sophomore Class Picture, 1935
From a Facebook post by Casey Head, whose grandfather is second from the right.

Rolfsen House on Ryle Road
From a Facebook post by Buzz Burns of a Mike Fletcher photo

Loading Tobacco, Hamilton	Hamilton School from the Owen Electric Cooperative Facebook page

 

Hamilton's Landing was originally platted as “Landing” in 1835 but no settlement is thought to have ever been established with that name. It was changed to “Hamilton” after Joel Hamilton, one of the original proprietors, on Feb. 17, 1846. The Act changing it.	“Squire Alphin, of Hamilton, of whom it is related that he once adjourned court to let two prisoners to fight it out,  was registered at the Day House yesterday.  The old gentleman tells some amusing anecdotes of Judge McManama.  One about the judge making him pay his own court docket of seven dollars - he having trusted “the boys” for their fines and not having yet collected.”from a Covington newspaper, The Ticket, April 22, 1875
While there may never have been an actual settlement at “Landing,” there was an Act by the Kentucky Legislature to establish it as a town in 1835.	The “Rouse Bridge,” between Florence and Limaburg, is reconstructed in 1955.
The Union men of Hamilton meet in 1866, declare secession unconstitutional, thank the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, and tell the government they want nobody voting but white men, here.	1864 Civil War episode in Hamilton, here.
	Another Civil War related episode from Hamilton, here.
	Governor's debate in Hamilton, here.
There are four houses in rural Boone County on the National Register of Historic Places. The applications, all pdf's, containing photo's, maps, history, and architectural details are available for the Robert Chambers House (East Bend), and the Thomas Zane Roberts House (on Middle Creek) the Abe Souther House (Francisville)and the John Moore House. (Taylorsport Road).
Also on the National Register of Historic Places are the East Bend Church, and the Hamilton School.
Hamilton's Mrs. Thomas Huff is awash in the waters of the 1937 Flood, but she still manages to get her column to the paper: Here, here, and here.
Highway robbery attempted in Hamilton in 1850.
Waggoner's Ferry, near the East Bend Bottoms, 1831.	5,000 acres offered for sale on Gunpowder Creek in 1792.
Escaped slaves sought, captured, in Hamilton in 1860, here.	The Freedman reports these episodes from 1866, near Hamilton.

Cincinnati Daily Commercial, July 24, 1865

Cincinnati Commercial, June 6, 1866

 

Indianapolis Journal, February 20, 1884

News of the 1884 flood

 

Making Sorghum, somewhere in Boone County	Making Sorghum on East  Bend Road, 1960	Harvesting Wheat in the North Bend Bottoms, 1937

An 1890 correspondent describes North Bend, here; another, from 1900, is here.

The site of the Village of North Bend, Ohio is here.
(site of America's first train robbery!)

North Bend damage from the Flood of 1883.

I.O.O.F. East Bend Lodge, No. 135, has been established at East Bend, Ky., on
Wednesday evening, March 25, by B. E. Garnett, District Deputy Grand Master."
from Vevay's Indiana Reveille, April 8, 1857

“The steamer Fanny Fern, bound up, exploded one of her boilers, on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 28th, a little below North Bend. The boat immediately took fire and burned to the water’s edge; floating down, the hull sunk near the Kentucky shore. Some fifteen persons lost their lives and several others were injured.” Ironton Review, February 4, 1858

Sand Run Church in Francesville From a Facebook post by Betty Baker French
Sand Run was established in 1799, with Black and White members. There's a history of the Sand Run Church at this site. A shorter history of Sand Run is here.

Point Pleasant Church
From a Facebook post by Keith Hamilton

Point Pleasant Christian Church	Point Pleasant Christian, Dedication Scenes right, From a Facebook post by Connie Bassant
It was at  the top of the hill from Constance, north west of the Mineola / I - 275 interchange. A history of the church is here. Another history of the church is here.

The Pleasant Ridge Institute was chartered in 1869.

Quillersville?

“Quillersville, Boone County.  I am requested by a member of the South Fork Church to say to readers of the Commonwealth that their meetings have changed from the first to the second Sunday of each month.”  from Covington’s Daily Commonwealth, March 27. 1879

The location of Redden's Landing

Robert Willis buried $65,000 in gold on his farm at Marrow, Boone County? Well, No. And yes, and no. Details.

Lots of Boone Countians can locate the little towns of Taylorsport, and Belleview, and some are better, knowing where Waterloo, Kensington and Idlewild are. We doubt many can name the locations of these society column headings from the Boone County Recorder (we can't!): Nonpariel Park, Flickertown, Gasburg, River View, Hill Top, Craw Valley, Fibtown, Owl Hollow, Plattsburg, Commissary, Buffalo, Pannels Bottom, Sycamore Valley, and Valley Flats. From Covington papers, we also find Boone County communities called Owl Cottage, Slusherville, Hogans X Roads, and Starvation Hollow.

Commissary identified.

And what about Mount Vernon?

A camp meeting [Wikipedia] to be held in Mt. Zion.

Southfork Church, Berkshire (Do we all remember “Berkshire, KY”? Click here for map)	The old General Store is behind the cow on the left!	Southfork Church These two scenes show one building prior to the Southfork pics at left.

 

Promotional Postcard for the Midwestern Jamboree, 1940

 

Florence Overnite Park actually in Devon	Devon Depot, unknown date	The Devon Tollgate From a Facebook post by Matt Mansu

 

The Devon Depot, 10.5 railroad miles from Ludlow

 

Buffington Depot, 9.1 railroad miles from Ludlow. We're not sure if this one was in Boone or Kenton. More on Buffington.	Railroad building at Grubbs, Ky., 12.5 railroad miles from Ludlow. (Richwood is at 13.8.)

 

 

Waterloo General Store
photo by Frank Milburn

 

US 42, looking southwest, Duckhead, 1940	The Duckhead Inn, also around 1940

 

Laughery Island, a.k.a. Lochry Island, and not to be confused with Big Bone Island. Laughery is just above Belleview. It's named after Colonel Archibald Andrew Lochry (15 April 1733—24 August 1781), who fought a battle in the American Revolutionary War near the site. At Wikipedia, you can read about Lochry, and his battle.

 

Caroline Williams sketches the Woolper Creek Bridge	Looking from Ohio towards North Bend, 1937 Flood

Woolper Creek, and the origin of its name here, and a history of the bridge, here.

There were two Woolper Creek Bridges. One washed out in 1907.

Hathaway School

“Covington, Ky., - May 29. - Word was received here this morning of a night raid at Hathaway, in the western part of Boone county.  The riders, thirty strong, descended on the village at one o'clock this morning, and after terrorizing the town, destroyed the tobacco beds of Edward Sullivan, Raymond Smith, Hance Ross and Omer Adams.” from the Frankfort Weekly News and Roundabout, May 30, 1908. This item report's a skirmish in the tobacco wars of the time.  Read more here.

 

Tobacco farming somewhere in Boone County, c. 1969

 

Boone County African-Americans migrate to Indiana
From a Facebook post by Boone County Library Local History