I-275 Construction in
Sandfordtown
An AP Wire Photo from 1973

Cherokee Acres, just getting rolling, early 1960's
From a Facebook post by Jerad Moore

“The picnic at Banklick Saturday was not so extensively attended as it might have been, but likely never will be surpassed for genuine jollity, polished hopping, and restrained rural rooster pluck.” From Covington"s Daily Commonwealth, July 24, 1879 

In the April, 2022 issue of Kentucky Magazine, Randy Ogden writes about Old Dead Horse Creek, the name of which comes from a Civil War episode. It seems some confederate soldiers had stolen too many horses to make a successful escape, so they kept the best ones, and took the hides from the remainder. As we understand his description, the creek flows east into Banklick, south of Wayman's Branch and north of Thompson Creek (which flows along Fowler Creek Road).

This map from 1865 shows a town at Nicholson's location, but the place is named California.

Crestview Hills, July 6, 1924
“Race Restricted”
from a Facebook post by George Smed, Jr.

Dixie Highway, somewhere
in Kenton County, c. 1918. In 1918, the "Dixie Highway"
could refer to what you know as Rts. 16, 0r 17, or 25, or 27.

On the Falmouth - Covington Road North of Piner. On 16?  Grassy Creek?

Circa 1920,  the Kentucky Highway Department published some pictures of the progress the state was making on road construction.  The image on the left is a Glutin Road (Glutin's a construction material), State Road 59c; and the road on the right demonstrates “Bermuda Asphalt Penetration.” Both are listed as being in “Kenton County.”

The Spring Lake community was east of Decoursey Road, near the south end of the L&N DeCoursey railroad yards.  The area was called Grant's Bend until roughly 1899, and there was discussion in 1906 to build a horse racing track there to compete with Latonia.  There's a picture of the Spring Lake Elementary School, below.

“Last night, James Bass, a farmer living at Spring Lake, just seven miles from Covington, received a visit from the Night Riders, who told him that he should cease growing tobacco or suffer the consequences.” Kentucky Post, April 18, 1908.

The threat is an episode in the 1908 Tobacco Wars in Kentucky.

Dixie Heights
 

Schools Busses at Dixie, 1948

Edgewood / Erlanger Aerial
That's Dixie Heights in the top center

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

The Fiskburg Garage
from the Bulletin of the Kenton County Historical Society

“Fiskburg is located on the Independence and Colesmanville [Harrison County] pike, 21 miles from Covington, and six miles from Morning View.  We have a post office, school, church, blacksmith shop, one store, cigar factory, toll gate, doctor and preachers.  We also have a Grange, Temple of Honor, and a Masonic Hall.  We want and must have a pike from here to Morning View [where the railroad is].  The sooner the better.”  from the Newport Local, September 5, 1878.

Thomas More Foundation
had some real estate for
sale in 1986.

A still earlier view of
what would be
Thomas More.

Thomas More
College, c. 1973

Bank Lick Creek
Artist: G. N. Frankenstein ;
Engraver: F. Humphreys.
This scene was published in an American Literary and Art Journal in 1849.  We've read that it depicts a scene “a mile  above its junction with the Licking River.”

“Only a few curious spectators were on hand Sunday as the Ku Klux Klan continued its membership drive in Northern Kentucky.  The scene is the Old Sandfordtown Ball Park on Ky. 17, where a Klan rally and cross burning. Saturday night was marked by scuffles between Klansmen and newsmen, foremen and spectators.” 
Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 27, 1965

“At the late term of the Kenton County Court the right to run a ferry across Licking river from Visalia, or Canton, as it is more generally called, was granted to F. M. Kennedy for twenty years.  He is to use a boat propelled by oars, 8 feet wide and 32 feet long, also a skiff 16 feet long and 4 feet wide.  The rates of ferriage are fixed as follows:  Foot passengers, 10 cents; horse 10 cents; sheep, hogs, and lambs, 2 cents each; hogsheads of tobacco, 10 cents; two wheeled carriage, or cart, 20 cents.” from the Covington Journal, March 5, 1870.