The Old 76 Distillery, in Finchtown
Description of the Old 76
More details on the Old 76 are at this site.
Finchtown Distillery burns, 1905.
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| Cave Spring Distillery, 1937 | Pebbleford Distillery, 1948 |
Kentucky Post, January 25, 1905
Fender's Towing, in front of the Fender Building, 130 W. 8th
Those houses in the background now at 125-127 West 8th or so
from a Facebook post by Gregg Hemmer, and data from James Rodney Poynter
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E. Crawley made book binding machinery at 328 Keturah
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Newport Mineral Water Co,
right, front and back. Building is at 16-18 E. Sixth Street
More about Newport Mineral Water is here.
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| A. J. Livingston's Wholesale and Retail Cigar Emporium, “ Newport, Kentucky, USA” Livingston's was on the southeast corner of 5th and York, in 1910 |
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| Ray Yung's Grocery, 8th and Isabella |
Fennell Building 9 East Fourth Street |
John Steinhauser Bakery, 285 Tibbets (10th) c. 1895 |
The Mayberry Brothers sold wallpaper on York.
Louis Thoeny & Co.
On German Street (now named Liberty Street)
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| Peter Hughes Express 1013 Vine St, Newport |
Clover Leaf Dairy |
From a Facebook post by Steve Trauth
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 From a Facebook post by Tammy Cornett |
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| “Louis Trauth Dairy began in May 1, 1920 when Louis Trauth, Sr. bought one home delivery route from Mr. Fred Schuerman's Alexandria Pike Dairy Farm, 15th and Alexandria Pike in Newport, Ky. Louis Trauth had worked for Mr. Schuerman for 17 years.” From a Facebook post by Jim Trauth | |||
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Delivery Trucks from Newport's Trauth Dairy. |
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| Music Hall at 11th and York | ||
| The Buecker Iron Works was begun in 1858 by David Buecker on 29 W. Sixth Street (then named Jefferson) in Newport. While a 1964 fire did considerable damage, the company rebuilt, and remained in business until 2007. If you live in Newport and you have a wrought iron fence, chances are it was made by Buecker. Look for their seal. |
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| The Pieper Dry Cleaning Company 39 Eighteenth Street, Newport |
Beetz's Bakery, 1922 Known for Beetz's English Pound Cake Tenth & Boone, Newport |
Joe Gatliff Auto Sales, 1959 6th and Dayton Ave. |
Snax Bar, 12 E. 5th, 1958
Ann's Ice Balls, 28 E. Ninth, June 1988
That's Tom Bechtol on the skateboard.
Photo by Gary Landers
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George Dorne Chewing Gum Factory, & Ad
A Little More on the Dorne Operation is here.
The time they busted a still on Dorne's third floor.
E. J. Blumberg and Son
New and Used [!] Plumbing Supplies
At 12th near Licking Pike
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Original Newport Power Station
Off the southern end of Lowell Street
More than you ever wanted to know about powering the NKY trolley system is here.
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Bill Yung's Body Shop, 5th and Isabella
Call HEmlock 1-8428.
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| Buechel's Market, 8th and Patterson from a Facebook post by Kim Fisher |
The Midwestern Bar 601 Central Avenue from a Facebook post by Newport's Sin City Years |
The Campbell Towers Implosion, June, 1999
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| Blank's Pharmacy, 10th and Isabella |
Dempsey's Drugs, 5th & Columbia, Founded by Joe Feth around 1872; purchased by Joe Dempsey c. 1925. | Specht's Pharmacy, 10th and York | Specht's, 1891 From a Facebook post by Jim Specht |
Cycling Life, August 6, 1896
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| Charles Braun, Grocer, Patterson at Thornton, 1910 From a Facebook post by Jan Mader-Roberts |
Block's, 4th & Columbia (before the Post Office) From a Facebook post by Byron J. Block |
| Former location of the Green Derby, 1919. Previously, garage and barber shop where Carrie Epperson had her beauty shop. Ann Woodburn Bezold opened her Ann's Ice Balls behind here on 8th, and would later move to Ninth and Orchard. From a Facebook post by Cathy Martin |
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| Reliable Monuments 11th and Lowell |
Keller's Grain Elevator,
10th and Lowell From a Facebook post by Ben Wolfe |
Bahlman's Shoes, 7th & Central from a Facebook post by Bev Achzehner Harber |
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| April 2, 1981, a fire works factory explodes in the alley between Monmouth and York, near 10th photo by Jack Klumpe |
Dickey's Newport Glass Service 33 W. Sixth Street |
Robert J. Enos Agency 11 E. Fifth Street, Newport |
| Read the legal case here. Thanks to Jacob Hunt for the reference. |
National Band and Tag, 721 York Street,
made a business out of selling sun glasses for chickens. No, really. Read it.
from a Facebook posting from Jon Wolfe
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| The Green Line passes 11th & Brighton Ed Gibbs, photo |
Old 76 Distillery |
91th and Patterson
From a Facebook post by Rosemeyer Bernd
11th and Isabella, c. 1975
From a Facebook post by Toby Fahlbush
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| E.L. Anderson Distillery | York Distilling Company | Old 76 Distillery | |
Dean Manufacturing
209 Front Street
The web site of the Gas Engine Magazine Newsletter knows more about Dean Manufacturing
Kentucky Post, January 27, 1929
| “Fire destroyed the Dana Coal Elevator at Newport, Ky., entailing a loss of $50,000. The building almost adjoined the remains of the “Old '76” distillery that burned last week.” from Fuel Magazine, 1906. | “The new stock-pens at Finchtown, near Newport, are completed, and about 2,000 head of stock will be wintered in them” Courier-Journal, December 6, 1880 |
| In 1890 Newport, you could hire a mesmerist. | Description Livezey's saw mills. Explosion at his sawmill in 1854. |
You can read about the 1854 explosion of a Newport saw mill. |
Newport had an award winning silk manufacturing plant, here. |
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| Artist conceptions of the Ovation from Scooter Media |
Ovation Construction, 2023 | |
