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.
 

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

 

E. Crawley made book binding machinery at 328 Keturah

 

Newport Mineral Water Co,
 right, front and back.  Building is at 16-18 E. Sixth Street
More about Newport Mineral Water is here.

 

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

 

Ray Yung's Grocery,  8th and Isabella	Fennell Building 9 East Fourth Street	John Steinhauser Bakery,  285 Tibbets (10th) c. 1895

 

  

Louis Thoeny & Co.
On German Street (now named Liberty Street)

 

Peter Hughes Express 1013 Vine St, Newport	Clover Leaf Dairy

  

From a Facebook post by Steve Trauth

			From a Facebook post by Tammy Cornett
“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
Delivery Trucks from Newport's Trauth Dairy. left, from a Facebook post by Larry Knarr
There's a history of Trauth on Wikipedia, here.

Music Hall at 11th and York

 

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.

 

 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
 

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.

Bill Yung's Body Shop, 5th and Isabella
Call HEmlock 1-8428.

 

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

Specht's Pharmacy, 10th and York	Specht's, 1891 From a Facebook post by Jim Specht	Bahlman's Shoes, 7th & Central from a Facebook post by Bev Achzehner Harber	Ben Pelzer's Cafe 6th & York from a Facebook post by Bill Fay

 

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

 

The Green Line passes 11th & Brighton Ed Gibbs, photo	Old 76 Distillery

 

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

Reliable Monuments 11th and Lowell	Teddy Bear

“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.

 

	Artist conceptions of the Ovation from Scooter Media

 

  

Ovation Construction, 2023