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Main Street |
Bike Club, 1884 |
Collins Flour Mill |
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S. M. Smith Lumber & |
McNay's Lumber |
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The Bank of Crittenden, |
The Tobacco Growers |
Crittenden Street Scene |
| The Tobacco Growers Deposit Bank was established on May 13, 1893, and changed it's name to The Bank of Crittenden on September 23, 1930. We have the original officers of the Tobacco Growers Deposit Bank. |
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| Bank robbery in 1920. | Buried treasure in Crittenden | |
| The 1907 Crittenden Bank Robbery. Sort of. Here. We assume this is the same event. | ||
 Evansville Journal, December 3, 1867 |
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| “The soldiers at [Camp King, Covington, Ky.] desire to acknowledge the receipt of a wagon load of chickens, turkeys, mutton, beef, and pork roasts, ham, fruits, pies, preserves, jellies &c., &c., from the ladies of Crittenden, Grant county, sent for Christmas day.” Cincinnati Daily Commercial, December 27, 1862 | |||
Bank of Crittenden's new building opens November 22, 1930
From a Facebook post by Donald Lee Skirvin
Old Crittenden Baptist Church location
December 1, 1965, and September, 2021
From a Facebook post by Glenn Stewart
Tuemler's Appliance Shop
from a Facebook posting by Penny Conrad
| “Crittenden Kentucky, Jan. 22. - Yeggmen early this morning blew open the safe in the Tobacco Growers Deposit bank. The explosion aroused the citizens and they frightened away the burglars who secured $500, but overlooked $5,000 in another drawer in the vault.” The Marion [Ohio] Daily Mirror, January 22, 1907 |
The Littleton Finley Home, Crittenden
This image is from William Davis, who would like to hear from you if you can give him
more specifics on this home's location.
This is Crittenden's Miss Alice Collins, winner of first prize
for best decorated
car in the parade that marked the opening of the 6th St Boulevard between
Bellevue and Newport, November, 1929.
Kentucky Liberal Institute, unknown year.
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| The Church | A pastor list of the church | A street scene and a VBS group |
Crittenden Baptist, 1950 |
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| Crittenden Baptist | Crittenden Baptist From a Facebook post by Jim_Dee Younger |
You can read Rev. Raymond Lawrence's 53-page booklet on the History of Crittenden Baptist (pdf).
| The Crittenden Association of Baptists closed a two day session at Mt. Carmel last Thursday. Dr. J. D. Violette was re-elected moderator, and J. N. Eckler was re-elected clerk. the next meeting of the association will be held with the church at Williamstown on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after the second Saturday in August 1893. It is an evident fact that the the Baptists will have to abandon their open air meetings of their associations. T00 many roughs, too much of the rabble attend such places to allow the Association to allow a decent discharge of the business of the meeting or a decent worship of God. A Christian meeting is no place for a person to hawk their merchandise or gather for the purposes of a pic-nic” Williamstown Courier, August 25, 1892 |
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| Crittenden Christian Church, Organized in 1835 by Larkin Brown, Alonzo Kiser and others. | |
Christian Church hit by lightening, 1907
1867 fire at Crittenden Christian Church, here.
| Crittenden Catholic Church? The Catholic Telegraph, of September 24, 1903, has a list of mission churches attended from the Cathedral, which would be St. Mary's in Covington. Note that “Crittenden, Grant County” is on the list. |
Public School, Crittenden
A list of all the people that graduated from Crittenden High School
from 1911 through 1948, is
here. (pdf)
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| Humphrey's, 1960's From a Facebook post by Donald Lee Skirvin |
Humphrey's Standard, next to the bank. From a Facebook post by Roger Humphrey |
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Crittenden High School |
Where it was From a Facebook post by Glenn Stewart |
Crittenden High School From a Facebook post by Roger Humphrey |
| “Crittenden High School. This institution located in Crittenden, Kentucky, under the care of Rev. T. C. Briggs, has just closed its first session with an interesting and highly creditable examination. The success of this school during the past session exceeded the most sanguine expectations of its warmest friends. The examination, especially, was an occasion of much interest. And we are happy to say, that the large and respectable assemblage of persons present on that occasion were well entertained and even highly gratified with the performance of the pupils.” Licking Valley Register, September 7, 1844 |
Adjusting a signal on the Southern, near Crittenden, c. 1914
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| Henderson-Rouse Tavern (Across 25 from Gardnersville Road) Lafayette was here. Maybe. Read about him, here. |
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| WW Market, formerly Case & Flynn grocery on Main St. in Crittenden after a fire. Photo taken at the post office on October 10, 2003, and one from the bank across the street. Contributed in an email from Webb.2 | Frontier Restaurant & Truck Stop |
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| The Kefauver Committee investigated crime in Northern Kentucky, mostly Newport, as well as other spots. Among other things, their final report (pdf) listed gambling spots in Northern Kentucky. Crittenden made the list. |
| Blanch Coldiron, also known as bluegrass artist Blanche the Mountain Girl made a number of recordings with her banjo. We know she spent a portion of her life living in Crittenden, altho this brief bio of her from Berea College doesn't say so. We find recordings by her on the web, but not a lot of information, and no picture. You can listed to her do Tally Ho! here. |
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Mr. & Mrs. John Ferrell
Crittenden barber, |
John J. Crittenden |
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Dry Ridge High School Conservation Club
key to the club's leaders
| “Crittenden, Grant County - John Schneider, our energetic drug and grocery man, is having his lumber and material sawed for building a store room on the lot adjoining his present location. He says the upper story will be used for storage, having on hand several barrels of old Sixty-Six, which he will offer for sale as soon a the local option law is repealed, or competition in the drug business has fled.”From Covington's Daily Commonwealth, May 2, 1879 |
| Northern Kentucky Views is pleased to post Mr. Lloyd Franks' A History of Early Crittenden. It's a 43 page pdf, that you can access by clicking here. |
 Courier-Journal, May 3, 1904 |
 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 21, 1927 |
| A history of Crittenden published in 1929 is here. | Dave Franks shoots Harvey Sanders in Crittenden streets, details here. |
“Crittenden, Ky. - The entire train of the Atlanta special on the Queen and Crescent railroad was overturned a half mile south of here while running at a high rate of speed. Two passengers were seriously injured and four others received minor hurts. The accident was due to spreading rails.” The Hickman (Ky.) Courier, May 2, 1912 |
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| Toronto Jimmy Goes on Trial for robbing Crittenden's Tobacco Growers Deposit Bank, here. | Ladies of Crittenden donate food to Civil War effort, here. |
“A woman named White, who states that she resides in the vicinity of Crittenden, Grant county, Ky., was arrested in Newport on suspicion of being engaged in an attempt to aid a slave woman and her two children to escape from their master.” Evansville (Indiana) Daily Journal, October 31, 1863 |
In 1879 President Rutherford B. Hayes' train stops in Crittenden and he greets the citizens. A Covington paper's story is here, in which they cover the reception of the President, and then excoriate the coverage of the event by the other Cincinnati newspapers. |
| Queen and Crescent (Southern) passenger train wrecks in Crittenden, 1912 | |
“For some days Abraham K. Prather a wealthy tobacco grower and widower, of Crittenden, Ky., claims that he has been confined to his room at this home by his children, who feared that he wanted to marry Allie Rolan, who has been a servant at the Prather house. Yesterday morning Prather escaped from his room and slipped away from the house unobserved. Miss Rolan was waiting at the depot, and they came to Cincinnati and were married. Prather is 63 years old and his bride is 21.” Daily Greencastle (Ind.) Banner, November 26, 1895 |
Remember when the circus came to Crittenden and there was a brawl between the local “desperadoes,” also described as Civil War guerrillas, and the circus folks? If not, read about it here and here. So two years later, we get this. |
| Freedmen's Bureau involved in Crittenden assault. | 1867 fire in Crittenden, here. |
| 1934 fire in Crittenden, here. | 1897 fire in Crittenden, here. |
| The Grant County Historical Society published this piece (pdf) on Crittenden's Rosenwald School. | A second Civil War item on Crittenden is here. |
| Crittenden Academy Established in 1856. | Union College established in Crittenden in 1858. |
Crittenden officially established as a town in 1837. . . .and again in 1868. |
Harrison County man saves three Crittenden girls; wins medal. |
An aerial retrospective look at Crittenden
From a Facebook post by Glenn Stewart
