The northern most point of Elsmere. That tree was the virtual dividing line between Erlanger and Elsmere. Note Arcaro's across Dixie in Erlanger.

 

Elsmere became an official city on May 11, 1896; Erlanger on January 25, 1897. You can read that Erlanger incorporated as a separate city from Elsmere to prevent annexation by Elsmere. True? Maybe.

Your chance to buy lots in Elsmere
Kentucky Post, April 1, 1922

 

Picnic at Elsmere's Guenthner's Gardens, 1897
Thanks! to Barbara Klein for this one

		The card says this is Erlanger,  but this is Elsmere, and  the C. & Q. R. R.
Elsmere Depot, June, 1925 (a Kentuckiana Virtual Library image) That's Garvey Avenue in the back on the right
	Above, the Timetable for the C.N.O. & T. P.	Earlier incarnations of the Railroad through Elsmere were the the C. & Q. R. R. (the Queen and Crescent), and the C.N.O. & T. P. (The Cincinnati, News Orleans, and Texas Pacific).  Both were earlier names of the Southern Railway, now the Norfolk Southern.
The Elsmere Depot, from the back side

 

Elsmere's Dunbar School
427 Spring Street
Details about the Dunbar School are at this site.

 

Elsmere to get a new school
Kentucky Post, June 27, 1941

 

Elsmere School, 1899 On Central Row	Central School, Elsmere	Elsmere School Teachers, c. 1929

 

Lum's
From a Facebook post by Beverly Sturgeon

Shanker's Store at Grange and Dixie, c. 1915
(We believe “Grange” is a typo - it's Garvey)
From a Facebook post by Beverly Sturgeon

 

St. Henry, May 17, 1936	St. Henry Campus, 1951

St. Henry's layout, 1909

St. Henry, 1911 The Dixie News ran a short  history of St. Henry, here.  (pdf)	St. Henry's Priest's House	St. Henry's Grade School	Dedication May 17, 1936 from Facebook post by St. Henry
Both of the old churches were at Garvey and Dixie, but the old church, on the far left, faced Garvey; the replacement, on the far right, faced Dixie.
Rev. Paul Ryan's history of St. Henry is here.

Read Pat Hahn's History of St. Henry (pdf) at the Erlanger Historical Society's web site.

The news accounts of the laying of St. Henry's cornerstone (1890) and dedication (1891).

The 1891 church burned down (1899).

The news accounts of the laying of St. Henry's cornerstone (1900) and dedication (1901).

New bells and statues, 1905

 

Cornerstone laying. Note the old church in the back on the right, facing Garvey, which was dedicated in 1903.

Parade of November 3, 1935, in honor of the setting of the cornerstone of St. Henry's. from Facebook posts by St. Henry That's the Newport Band in the second image.

 

The Ke-O-Me-Zu Springs Buffington, Ky Why is this on the Elsmere page?	The Buffington Depot
The Erlanger Historical Society has more at their site.

 

	Looking north on Dixie from Carlisle From a Facebook post by Jo Ann Tichenor

 

Garvey Avenue, looking northwest
The current bridge is from 1949, and replaced this one.
From a Facebook post by Laura Hartman Roland

 

Moss Homes 812-814 Garvey	Elsmere Baptist  Church, c. 1980

Billy Bradford
Northern Kentucky's first African-American Mayor
More about him is at the Kentucky Tribune's site.

 

Elsmere's Rosella Porterfield Park is named for a lady you can read more about at this site, and here (pdf) and here.

 

The 1928 Elsmere Girls Debate Team

The Tornado of July 7, 1915 hit the Erlanger Elsmere area hard:

North on Dixie, from Seven Mile House	Ruth Home	Davis Home

Gale Home	Hazenbeller Home	Jones Home

Stephenson Home	Stephenson Home	Westerman Home

Koettenbrink Home (sp?)	Dauwe Home	Dauwe Home
The above twelve images are all courtesy of the Boone County Historical Society and the efforts of Mr. Steve Conrad.  Thanks folks.

 

Dauwe Home on Garvey in Elsmere, many years before and after the tornado of July 7, 1915, at 9:15 p.m.  Scuttlebutt has it that the bathtub ended up a half mile away on Dixie Highway.  The Hartford [Ky] Courier, of July 14, 1915, carried a story that said "Mrs. John Dauie [sp?] was instantly killed and three others of the family injured.  It is thought the husband is dying."		Elsmere Scene after  the  July 7, 1915 Tornado

See all the Northern Kentucky 1915 tornado scenes here.

James and Sarah Lawrence in the 400 block of Garvey. You'll want to read her story.

 

The U.S.S. Elsmere	St. Henry Hunting and Fishing Club, 1950

 

	It's our understanding that Elsmere was named for a residential street in Norwood, Ohio, but we note this older map of Cincinnati shows Elsmere as a neighborhood in Norwood, through which there is a street named Elsmere (next to the red line),

 

Elsmere was incorporated on May 11, 1896.

 

The program (pdf) for the rededication of Porterfield Park, with a bio of Ms. Porterfield.	Was "Hardscrabble" an earlier name for Elsmere?  We don't know, but can make an argument that it was. Here.
A brief history of Barnes Methodist, here.	The KKK marches in Elsmere.