. . .and a few from Higginsport.
| Of course, Boudes Ferry, or, as it's sometimes written, Boudesferry, isn't in Northern Kentucky, it's in Ohio, across the river from Augusta. |
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View from Boude's Ferry, |
Sunny Side, |
Sunny Side, Boudes Ferry
Postmarked Higginsport, 7/7/1913, to Stanley Lanham of
Higginsport, O., “We will hold the opening dance, Wednesday,
July 9th get together, join the crowd, and have a good time.” Thomas Bros.
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| The dear old Cottage Home in Boudesferry Thanks to Dave Long for this one! |
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| A Harlan Hubbard oil color of Higginsport |
The Higginsport bridge over White Oak Creek, 1933
From a Facebook post by Brown County, Ohio History
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| Covered Bridge near Augusta, 1906 |
Thomas Sumner Resort, |
Scene near Thomas' Summer Resort, opposite Augusta |
J. E. Lyons, Lumber, 1901
Maysville Evening Bulletin, June 17, 1891
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| Higginsport Boot and Shoe | Glacial Rock, |
Higginsport Christian Church, c. 1910 |
In 1906, the Georgetown News-Democrat published a list of all of the shareholders in The Citizens' Bank of Higginsport.
Higginsport on the National Register of Historic Places.(pdf)
Night riders from Augusta strike in Rural, Ohio: Here, here, and here.
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Higginsport, c. 1910 |
Higginsport, 1910 Second Street, looking West |
Higginsport Wharf Boat |
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| Higginsport Baseball, 1940's from a Facebook post by Brown County, Ohio History |
“Kiddies riding the blind pony in Higginsport, 1919” |
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| Higginsport Gas Station | Village Park, Higginsport | Looking North at the mouth of White Oak Creek, 1909 Flood from a Facebook post by Brown County, Ohio History |
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| Moscow | Neville | Chilo | Higginsport |
| All from the 1937 Flood, several days before the actual crest. | |||
The Higginsport Bridge
| “The white oak saw and planing mills of Higginsport have been purchased by C. W. and S. G. Boyd. Forty hands will be worked. A ship-yard is also proposed. They are building a Bell telephone to their Levanna mills, and intend to extend it to Augusta.” Courier-Journal, December 18, 1880 | Higginsport's John R. Young, when the flood waters of 1883 “were coming in his front door on Front Street, remarked that he 'was there first and proposed to fight the d__n river out if it took all spring.' But poor John had to turn up his toes and skip in his john boat to fields new and pastures green.” from the Bracken Bulletin, February 10, 1883 |
| Higginsport Lots for Sale, 1836 | The League of American Wheelmen (a bicyclists' organization) had a low opinion in 1892 of riding in Brown County. |
| Business opportunities in Hiport touted in 1837. | College opens in Higginsport, 1865. |
| A legal case over the Higginsport Distillery, 1858. | Hiport extends its boundaries, 1841. |
| Higginsport crime wave, 1867. | Col. Robert Higgins obituary, 1825. |
| “Capt. Robert M. Taylor, the well-known boat builder in Higginsport, O., is doing a big business, having just completed two deckboats 140 x 32 for the Singer Manufacturing Company, and now has a force of men at work on a large derrick-boat and deck barge for White River, Ark., to be operated by the Dayton (O.) Last Works.” Waterways Journal, September 9, 1899 | “Capt. M. Duffy has a fine little packet in the new Wm. Duffy, running from Marietta to Waverly-four trips a day. She is 125 feet long, 22 feet wide, with 2 ½ foot guards. Her engines are 13 by 4 ½. She was built in Higginsport, O., by Capt. Robert Taylor, and has a fine electric light plant. She is in charge of Capt. Wm. Duffy, with Charles Hardy at the engines.” Waterways Journal, June 4, 1897. |
Georgetown Democratic Standard, May 11, 1841
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 15, 1882
Weekly Herald (NYC), December 2, 1848
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| Showb0at New Sensation, 1901 | Steamer Wm. Duffy, c. 1897 |
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| Steamer Hermann Paepcke, 1900 | Steamer Enos Taylor, 1893 |
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| Steamer A.C. Ingersoll, Jr., 1901 | Steamer Marlen Riggs, 1907 |
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| Steamer W. T. Smoot, 1903 | Steamer Addie T, 1904 |
All of the steamers above were manufactured in Higginsport, in the years indicated. The steamer Mobile was also made in Higginsport |
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| Images from Facebook posts by Joshua Steele | |||
Not far down-river from Boudes Ferry is a little burg called Utopia. There's not much there these days, but it has a pretty fascinating history. Utopia was founded in 1844 by the followers of Charles Fourier, after the failure of an earlier Fourierist phalanstère called the Clermont Phalanx. Fourier's writings inspired his readers to create their own utopian society—hence the name “Utopia.” Within three years, the community broke up. It was soon reorganized by Josiah Warren, left, above, who founded the town as a means of a small cooperative community that could still carry out functions like the outside world. Their underground chamber is shown in the center (Wyatt McSpadden, photo), and a painting, from the Kentucky side, from 1844, done on the visit of Cincinnati Fourierists to the Clermont Phalanx. This Wikipedia page gives you more details on Utopia, including links to most of the terms and people we've noted above. We also found a more scholarly treatment, “Utopia, Ohio, 1844-1847”(pdf) |
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