Southgate, Campbell County, Kentucky

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Evergreen Cemetery, c. 1910	Entrance to Evergreen Cemetery, c. 1910 A brief history of Evergreen is here; a little more detail here.

The Newport Cemetery Company changed its name to Evergreen in 1880.

Heidelberg Pleasure Resort
It was near where St. Therese School is today on US 27

Aerial of Heidelberg Resort

The original St. Therese, September 6, 1947
From a Facebook post by Gina Dew

This is the first location of St. Therese, established August 15, 1927
in the building which formerly housed Heidelberg Resort. The current
St. Therese is built on the same site.


The bell from an old Newport fire station went to St. Terese, but its location has been lost. Details.

An 1874 magazine, Chic, said that the Heidelberg Garden was a 5 cent trolley ride from Cincinnati, and that proprietor Kettenacker had set it up for families, with swings, bowling alleys, and “Wiedemann's famous Bohemian Beer always on tap.”

One visitor's rave review is here.

1906. The streetcar line went up Electric Avenue to Retreat Street.
From a Facebook post by Cliff Specht

Howard and Elizabeth Davis owned the Davis Fox Farm where they raised silver foxes on what would later be the site of Beverly Hills
From a Facebook post by Judy Kuyper Alessandro

The New Heidelberg


Southgate Methodist Church, circa 1910	Southgate Business District, 1948	Tornado of 1915. Find out much more about this devastating storm here.

Belle Acres Twin Lakes
from a Facebook post by Jerry Kovacik & Doug Olier


	Berry Lake, named for Albert Seaton Berry. It was a pay lake, with some cottages later on its shores. Southgate's Municipal Building and Community Center are on the site today. Belle Acres was a later name for the same place.
	From a Facebook posts by J. E. Venneman of pictures taken by his gr-grandfather, Clarence Boeckley.


Specht's Pharmacy, Walnut & Electric	Wm. Speck & Co.. Florists, 1910, at the northeast corner of Willow and Alexandria Pike	Term Finance on Alexandria Pike

Knobloch Motors, a Nash Dealer

Southgate Methodist, on Blatt Avenue, c. 1936
from a Facebook post by J. E. Venneman


Sleepy Hollow Lodge, Evergreen and Alexandria Pike from Facebook posts by J. E. Venneman		Bridge at Willow and Evergreen from a Facebook post by J. E. Venneman


Venneman Home on Evergreen	Moock Road
from Facebook posts by J. E. Venneman

City Hall, c. 1938


Lake Albert, 1927	Bell Acres, 1948
Lake Albert was on the west side of US 27, a little north of where Willow meets the highway.

Map showing Lake Albert


Evergreen Cemetery Chapel	Evergreen Cemetery Shelter House

The Blue Grass Inn, in the Beautiful
Kentucky Highlands, Southgate, Kentucky
The All Seasons Hotel is reached via Alexandria
Pike by auto or Monmouth Street Cars, only 17
minutes from Fountain Square, Cincinnati, O. European Plan.
Frank N. Schoonmaker, proprietor.

Midnight Law
New York Clipper, July 11, 1917

Bluegrass Avenue was originally designed as an entrance to the Bluegrass Inn, which was at the top of the hill about where the Southgate/Newport line is. From its construction in 1907-08, to its eventual opening on May 19, 1910, to a fire on February 7, 1915, it was never profitable, and went thru a series of owners, suits and bankruptcies.

Blue Grass Inn Menu, 1913


El Greco menu, 1978

Early Southgate Fire Departments

The first Southgate Life Squad.
Contributed by Nancy Meyers, who tells us: “The first Southgate Life Squad. A station wagon was purchased in 1965 or 1966 and made into a fully equipped squad. It all began with an idea submitted to Fire Chief Muench by Harvey Lipscomb (seated) and Paul H. Meyers. Shown standing are, left to right: Paul Myers, Frank Bertsch, and Roy Stein.” Thanks, Nancy.


The Southgate Fire Engine, circa 1940		Southgate Fire Department, 1941

In 1895, The Shaler Family divide their estate into 200 building lots and announce an auction of building lots, here, which was a big success, story here.
The Spring of 1907 was a happening time for the City of Southgate. The city announces big plans, incorporates, celebrates the incorporation, and two weeks later starts annexing more territory.
“Mrs. Antoinette Beccard, Southgate, Ky., famous as the “flower woman,” today received a note of thanks from President Harding for a huge bouquet of roses sent for his inauguration. Mrs. Beccard, who is 72 years old, began selling flowers on the Cincinnati streets when she was 16 years old.” Courier-Journal, March 19, 1921
A history of the Southgate schools is here.
Cliff Specht's amended history of Southgate is here.	The Rev. Paul E. Ryan's History of St. Therese is here.