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| Taylorsport Store, 1951 | Taylorsport Ferry | Taylorsport, '37 Flood |
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Sprague's Store
From a Facebook post by G. H. Neville
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| Earlier Taylorsport School | Later Taylorsport School |
Taylorsport Baseball Team
From a Facebook post by Susan Roland
Tom Goodridge in the back row, 2nd from the left.
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Taylorsport Baseball Team, 1920 |
Taylorsport. We're guessing 1907
or 1913, because of the high water. It was normally much lower than this. |
Taylorsport, 1883 |
Taylorsport was established in 1827 and had a ferry crossing and a warehouse. Over the years, it has lost a street, a row of houses, and a cemetery to the waters of the Ohio. |
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| “The steamer General Pike with government supplies went down the river yesterday and landed at Troutman's Ohio, Anderson's Ferry, Stringtown and Taylorsport. Ten to fifteen houses were washed away at each place. The destitution is great. Many of the sufferers are barefoot and scantily clad.” from the Jamestown, New York Evening Journal, 1884, obviously reprinting a wire story. | ||
Kentucky Legislature enlarges Taylorsport city limits, March 4, 1850
Newport's James Taylor, the “proprietor” of “Taylorsville,” offers it for sale, in an 1841 auction, here.
Newport's James Taylor, the “proprietor” of
“Taylorsville,” offers it for sale, in an 1846 ad, here.
Taylorsport changes its named from Taylorsville.
| Six pictures of the Hempfling House, near Taylorsport, are at the Library of Congress' site, here. | |
| “The Cincinnati Commercial of yesterday says Captain Charles David has concluded his repairs to the Dumont, and she looks like a new boat. He made a trial trip yesterday, and made the run from Taylorsport to the bridge in sixty minutes; a distance of eleven miles. Pretty good time for new cylinders. The Dumont will resume her trips in the Madison trade next Tuesday.” From the Louisville Daily Journal, May 25, 1866 | |
| Zurelbry rescues Phillips from death in Taylorsport; Phillips murders him. | The Taylorsport - Delhi Ferry. |
| Taylorsport assassin. | The harvest home fair. |
| Hammit Smith attempts fratricide. | There was a Catholic Church in Taylorsport. |
Six pictures of the Hempfling House, near Taylorsport, are at the Library of Congress' site, here. |
Fallout from a drunken Delhi, Ohio card game leads to a shooting affray in Taylorsport, here. |
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| Fernbank Construction Scene The locks were on the Kentucky side |
Rebuilding Fernbank, 1930 This type of lock is known as a beartrap. |
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| The Ice of 1917-18 at Fernbank, from the Facebook page of the Saylor Park Historical Society | |||
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| Ice at Fernbank Dam in 1917-18, across from Taylorsport. Read about the amazing ice of 1918 from several issues of the Boone County Recorder here. It was “the most phenomenal [ice gorge] ever formed on the Ohio River” The Lawrenceburg Press, February, 1918 | |
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Fernbank Locks |
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| Fernbank, 1932 |
| Thanks to Travis Brown and Karl Lietzenmayer for this one |
Construction to begin on the Fernbank Dam
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Fernbank dedication program is here and the engineering view is here. Both are pdf's.
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Celebrating the Opening of |
September 4th and 5th, 1911 |
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| Fernbank Dam was the first of several Cincinnati area dams, and ran roughly between Saylor Park and Taylorsport. More about the earlier series of Ohio River locks and dams is here. The Fernbank Indians were the source of the name. | ||
The first steamer thru Fernbank was the Dixie, shown here docked in Memphis. Details.
The Ramona also claimed to be the first thru Fernbank, on July 22, 1911.
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| As Markland Dam became virtually ready to officially open, Fernbank became an obstacle, and was blown out of existence on November 8, 1862. Image on the left is from the Kentucky side; on the right from Ohio. | |
Shelby Louden gives a presentation for the Saylor Park (Ohio) Historical Society on the history
of the original Ohio River locks and dams, centered mostly on Fernbank, lock and dam 37. It's a film of
a Powerpoint presentation with a voice over, but the info is solid, and there are some nice pictures.
Another Shelby Louden video on Fernbank.
