Crescent Springs, Kentucky


J. A. Smith Grocery Store, 1912 Western Reserve and Anniston. Albert Gillaspie sold the store to the Smiths, who then sold it to the Feldmens.	Dry Creek Road from the Bridge Crescent Springs	St. Joseph's Dedicated in September, 1916

Dr. Paul Tenkotte has a piece on the history of St. Joseph's at this site.

St. Joe's has published a booklet (pdf) of it's history.


Crescent Springs Consolidate School right, 1948

Crescent Springs Presbyterian Church
The church was built from stones from Dry Creek. Ed Powers was the mason who did most of the work.

Crescent Springs Post Office, c. 1915
From a Facebook post by James Russell

Baptism in Crescent Springs


Crescent Springs Depot, January, 1913	Crescent Springs Depot

Southern Railway Train M43 with EMD GP38-2 SOU 5118 passes under the Crescent Springs
trestle on December 16, 1989. This pic is a copyrighted photo by Don Faris.
Clicking on the thumbnail will take you to railpics.net, where the original resides.


Picking up passengers at the Crescent Springs depot.	Queen & Crescent Bridge Crescent Springs	Railroad workers at lunch in Crescent Springs, 1919


	Covington's getting a radio station: WCKY. The tower and the transmission building still stand.
	W C for Covington KY for Kentucky
	The story of the station's opening.

Ken's Tressler Comet, Anderson and Western Reserve
Thanks to Elaine Kallmeyer-Oestricher for this picture!


“A typical grocery store in the 1950's. Two red coke bottle cap signs. A thermometer with a tobacco company ad, and a screen door with a bread company logo. Dad bought this store in Crescent Springs from Norbert Otten in 1958. It only looked like this for three years and we put the brick addition with the entrance on the side in 1961. It lasted like that until 1968 when the new building was built behind this building and this was torn down.” Tim Fedders, posting on Facebook.

Fedder's
From a Facebook post by Kevin Kallmeyer

Kallmeyer's
The fire truck on the right is a 1954 GMS /Ahrens Fox, and the other a 1942 International, thought to be Army surplus.
From a Facebook post by Kevin Kallmeyer; truck ID's by Philip Eha

Scott St. looking toward Cherry St.
From a Facebook post by Kevin Kallmeyer

Moving, from Buttermilk Crossing to Horton Street. Bob Bell was the mover.
House/school/church moving used to be fairly common.
From a Facebook post by Keven Kallmeyer

Karen Kemp posted this image on Facebook of her grandparent's store in Crescent Springs. They were John and Wilamena Raterman Seissiger. Karen says her grandfather donated the land for St. Joseph's, and as a result had the KKK burn a cross in front of the store. Evidently the Protestants of Crescent Springs didn't want any of those heathen Catholics.

1926 Crescent Springs Girls' Basketball
from the Kentucky Monthly/Kentucky Explorer


Baseball, in Crescent Springs 6-19-1909, To Nellie Gans, Anderson, Indiana This picture was taken back of the School House, we used to play there when we went to School. Will send some more pictures later on soon as they are finished. Ida M. Hanauer			Crescent Springs Baseball Team Thanks! to Frank Harmon for this image.

“Covington police had to escort Umpire H. H. Koester from the city baseball diamond at Fifteenth and Eastern avenue, Sunday afternoon, following a game between the Gold Medal Oils and Crescent Springs, which the Oils won 8-5 under protest. The followers of Crescent Springs were infuriated over several decisions made by Koester during the game and they were waiting for him outside the field after the game. The police came to his rescue, however, and escorted him from the scene.”The Times-Star, Monday October 2, 1933


Public School, Crescent Springs	Schoolhouse and General Store, c. WWI	Swan Street, looking west

Early steam locomotives had names.
This is the Crescent Springs, Cincinnati Southern engine #1.
It was later involved in a head-on crash in Erlanger, on November 28, 1886.

Ruttle's Florist.
They originally opened in Covington in 1898 in the 800 block of Madison; after this location, on Dixie in the Fort Mitchell business district. Shown is what is now the 300 block of Buttermilk. from a Facebook post by Ray Hadorn

Crescent Springs Life Squad
from a Facebook post by Ray Hadorn


A pair of Crescent Springs VFD Items From a Facebook post by George Bruns


Ads from the Catholic Telegraph, May 18 and June 1, 1893
Did the ads above bring out a crowd? You betcha.

Lots for sale in Crescent Springs, 1919
“Where the Sky is Blue and the Air is Pure”
From a Facebook post by Kevin Jansen


Aerials of Western Reserve, Collins, and Buttermilk from Crescent Springs to the Entrance of Villa Hills. June, 1960. From a Facebook post by Gayle Niewahner Starks

History of Crescent Springs, from the city's web site.	The Rev. Paul Ryan's History of St. Joseph's in Crescent Springs is here.
Anderson McPerkin convicted, hung. Here. The details here; the day after story here.
Man on bicycle mugged on Buttermilk Pike	“A country fire” in Crescent Springs.
In 1957, Crescent Springs begins efforts to become an official town.
Folks in “houses occupied by poor and not too honest people” on Buttermilk road beset by the White Caps, here.	Don't miss a great selection of older Crescent Springs pics on the Kenton Co GenWeb site, here.