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St. Anthony's in Forest Hills St. Anthony's in Forest Hills St. Anthony's in Forest Hills St. Anthony's in Forest Hills St. Anthony's in Forest Hills
On Decoursey First School New Church The “entire plant.”
St. Anthony's in Forest Hills. There's a history of the church at their website.

 

St. Anthony's in Forest Hills St. Anthony's in Forest Hills
Cornerstone Laying
The Catholic Telegraph, September 6, 1928
Dedication
The Catholic Telegraph, April 11, 1929

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Rose Circle and Park Road Park, Rose, & Amsterdam, c. 1925 Lawton Road, C. 1940
That's Jack Murphy in the photo.
All three of these are from the Park Hills Facebook Page.

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Shell Station at 1403 Dixie in Park Hills
From a Facebook post by Beverly Sturgeon

History of Park Hills Lutheran is here.

Iris Spoor's History of Park Hills is here. (pdf)  

newMrs. Udry's History of Park Hills.

 

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Park Hills Plat, 1925
A big thanks to Jim Pfaller for his help in bringing you this one
Park Hills Home Beautiful
Kentucky Post, August 19, 1903

 

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Park Hills
From a Facebook post by Mike Conway

 

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Carney's Furniture Store, Arlington and Dixie in Park Hills, 1955
From a Facebook post by Sue Roeding Lanter

 

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Street car passing thru Park Hills
From a Facebook post by Mike Conway


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Aerial view of Kyles Lane at I-75 and the Dixie Gardens Drive-In
From a Facebook posts by Beverly Sturgeon, right, and MJ Musicman
 


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Park Hills Elementery

A Scene in Park Hills, 1929 Park Hills
From a Facebook post by Park Hills, Ky
Park Hills Elementary
From a Facebook post by Bryan Meade

Dr. Paul Tenkotte writes about the origins of Park Hills, and its “Happy Homes,” at this site.

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St. Charles Nursing Home

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Covington - Kenton County
Tuberculosis Sanatorium
on Farrell Drive, off Kyles Lane.  a.k.a. “The Pest House”

Odilo “Shorty” Siegrist advertising a Ft. Wright Festival at 5th and
Madison in Covington.

Fort Wright Fire Department

1937 Flood, Covington, Ky 1937 Flood, Covington, Ky
Fort Wright Fire Department
From a Facebook post by Reen Mack

 

Dixie Gardens

Dixie Gardens Drive In

 

Dixie Gardens

St. Agnes, in Park Hills

 

Dixie Gardens Latonia Firemen
Dixie Gardens
Movies in Your Car!
Looking South on Dixie, c. 1970's.
from the Facebook page of Park Hills, Ky

 

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Read about the man for whom Fort Wright is named, Gen. Horatio G. Wright, at Wikipedia, here, or you can read Chester Geaslen's article on Wright from the Enquirer, here.

Fort Wright has absorbed many smaller Kenton County communities over the years.  South Hills was annexed in 1960, Lookout Heights in 1967, and Lakeview in 1977.

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Tunnel Hill, near Covington
A Union outlook to watch for
Confederate troops threatening
Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati,
from Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Oct 4, 1862.

You know Fort Wright and Fort Mitchel,
but can you place Northern Kentucky's
Fort Rich?  Fort Perry? Here's a complete
(but see to the right) list of Civil War
fortifications in Northern Kentucky. 
See also a Chester Geaslen letter here.(pdf)

Camp King & Battery Overlook
the Covington& Lexington RR. 
from The Pictorial War, Record, c. 1880.

Additional Information about the Civil War in Northern Kentucky is at NKY Views Civil War Page, here.

 

Dr. Richard Cardosi has a video featuring Bates Battery, from the Civil War, on YouTube
It's number 20 on the battery map above.


Kenton County Scene
Northern Kentucky State
Vocational Technical School
1025 Amsterdam Road

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Kenton County Tavern Rates, 1883
Meals, each    40 cts
Lodging    40 cts
Common whiskey, per drink    05 cts
All Other Whiskey, per drink    10 cts
Brandy, rum, gin, wine, etc    15 cts
Grain or feed, per gallon    25 cts
Horses, per night, hay or grain    40 cts
Pasturage, per day    10 cts

From the Covington Daily Commonwealth, April 24, 1883

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