Carrollton, Carroll County,Kentucky

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from Ele Bowen's Rambles in the
Path of the Steam Horse, 1855


Carrollton, from King's Ridge, June, 1930	Aerial from Indiana, August, 1931	3rd and High Streets, (Highland used to be High Street)

Carrollton, from Indiana, Summer, 1935

Carrollton Scenes, 1908
“City Buildings, Schools, Etc., Carrollton, Ky”

Court Street
From a Facebook post by Bill Davis


Section of Fourth Street	Lower Main Street, 1910 Published by W. L. Gaines	Fifth Street, looking South, 1920's


Section of 6th Street	Highland Avenue, c. 1910	Sixth Street Scene


Lower Highland Avenue	Upper Highland Avenue	Fifth Street, 1944

“Croquet has broken out in Carrollton.” Courier-Journal, August 3, 1869

“Roller skating is all the rage.” Carrollton Democrat, January 17, 1885


c. 1960	Court Street	Farmers Convention	Fifth Street Landing, c. 1910

Carroll County Memorial Hospital
Dedicated August 21, 1955


Richlawn Stock Farm	Herefords on R. M. Barker's Farm, 1937

The Richland Stock Farm is on the National Register of Historic Places. Read the application (pdf) here.

Fifth Street
From a Facebook post by Kelly Anderson


Fifth Street View Courtesy Kentucky Historical Society. Visit history.ky.gov regarding rights and reproduction	Moonshiners arrested in Carrollton, 1942. read more about it here.

A rare older color image
From a Facebook post by Pat Hill


Greyhound on Court House Square, 1951	The White Star Lines comes through Carrollton, 1951	Greyhound stopped at the Gypsy Grill, 1951	Court Street that's Everett Bright in front of the old fire house. From a Facebook post by Barbara Goodman

The ads from the Kentucky Gazette from 1789 to 1795 advertising lots for sale in Port William. Just how old is 1789-1795? Very.

C. S. Griffith's, on 5th Street

From a Facebook post by Claudia Spenneburg. from the left, J. M. Driskell, John Swango, John Bovard, C. S. Griffith, James Peak, and Preston Ford


Leonard Hendrix's Carrollton & Cincinnati Bus Line	A Driveway near Carrollton Thanks! to Regina Stewart for this image	Busses at the Gypsy Grill, c. 1940's

CCC Camp Butler, at the 11th St. entrance to the park
From a Facebook post by Bill Davis

Wikipedia knows this about the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

CCC in Carrollton

These may be CCC men at General Butler. Maybe not.


Section of Carrollton, 1903 How to see the entire map, here.	Carrollton Parade Scene, c. 1950	Carrollton Baseball Team The key to the players names is here.

1857
Indiana Reveille (Vevay), June 24, 1857

Fire in Carrollton, 1859, here.

The Great Fire of 1874 burns out a block in Carrollton. The detailed story is here, and the follow-up story is here.

October 15, 1884 fire: The Enquirer's coverage is here; the Carrollton Democrat's is here.

November 8, 1884: “Another Fire!”

January, 1885: They're getting a fire engine.

January 2, 1888. Fire.

January, 1891 fire story is here.

Fire of 1895 is here.

Two other large Carrollton fires, likely in the 1890's, are here, and here.

This clipping may well be a duplicate account one of the above.

And this account, of the fire's aftermath.
(The four stories above are all undated, but from an 1890's scrapbook full of Carroll newspaper clippings)

The 1937 Flood caused this fire.

“Mr. Deweese, of Carrollton, estimates that in the last 41 years he has smoked 100,000 cigars.” Courier-Journal, May 17, 1875
P0wers of the Port William Trustees, 1837
“The Masons in Carrollton, Ky., will dedicate their new Hall in that place on the 4th of July.” Vevay's Weekly Reveille, June 27, 1855	Port William or Williamsport? Here.
Port William was officially established on December 13, 1794, and that act was revised in 1799.
Carrollton's H. H. Masterson and Capt. Charles V. Gridley, here.	“The slave Abner, who attempted a rape in Carrollton, Ky., last June, has been convicted in the Criminal Court, and sentenced to be hung on Friday, September 5th.” The Cincinnati Enquirer, August 8, 1851.
A brief bio of Mrs. Sarah Masterson.
The William Porter family, here.
A Description of Carrollton, from 1808, here.	A Description of Carrollton, from 1817, here.
A Description of Carrollton, from 1875, here.	A Description of Carrollton, from 1818, here.
“A meeting of Carroll and Owen county capitalists was held [at Carrollton] to-day with a view to building an electric railway from Milton to Owenton, through this city. J. M. Barker, presiding. The prospect for the line is flattering.” Cincinnati Enquirer, May 4, 1901	“Great men sometimes have queer experiences in early life. The late Dr. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company was indicted in Carroll county, Kentucky, in 1839, for grave-robbing.” Indianapolis Journal, February 16, 1893
“Runaway slaves captured. We learn that a free negro that had been preying in and about Carrollton, mouth of the Kentucky river, undertook a day or two since to run off a couple of slaves. He started with them in a skiff, and took his course down stream, when he was overtaken by parties in pursuit and the slaves recaptured, but the free fellow escaped.” Louisville Daily Courier, August 24, 1854

James Carrico, Sr. is murdered by Lester Gammon in September, 1951. Gammon was finally tracked down in August, 1952. The initial trial in Carrollton ended in a hung jury. The rail was moved to Boone County, where Gammon was convicted. Thanks to Bill Davis for some of these clippings.
The Crime	Gammon Caught	Hung Jury	To Boone Co.	Convicted
Ironically, Carrico was killed very close to the spot where his son-in-law, James Claxton, was killed in 1933. Claxton worked for Department of Fish and Wildlife and had cited a fisherman named Dick Lacey for illegal use of fishing nets. The 1920 and 1930 censuses found Lacey an inmate in the Penitentiary in Frankfort. He died in 1954 and is buried in Carrollton Odd fellows. James Claxton is buried in Warsaw.


The 1934 Carrollton phone book. From a Facebook post by Bob Marlette


	The circus comes to Carrollton


Carrollton Walking Tour #1		Carrollton Walking Tour #2		Carrollton Walking Tour #3

A young lady of Carrollton takes a dim view of her elders.
from the Carrollton Democrat, April 30, 1898