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Baptist Theological Seminary,1840 - 1855, was on Eleventh, between Madison and Russell. Read a little more about it, here (Wikipedia). |
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First Annual Report of the Western Baptist Seminary, here. (pdf)
Covington attorney Harry Mackoy wrote on a history of the Western Baptist Theological Seminary (pdf).
Western Baptist Seminary was created by an act of the Kentucky Legislature in 1840.
Ricke's Seminary, 1858
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A Walking Tour of the Seminary Square Area |
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Asa Drury laid the foundation for the Covington Independent School District.
Read about him at this site.
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, September 18, 1862
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First District School. Built in 1867. Right, 1893; left, 1901.West Scott, between 5th and 6th |
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Second District School, c. 1910, 0n Robbins Street, west of Banklick |
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Third District School, se corner of 5th and Philadelphia |
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The Northern Kentucky Tribune's site has this history of the third district school, by David Schroeder.
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Fourth District School. Right, 1901; left, 1893. East Scott, between 15th & 16th |
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| The New Fourth District School, a.k.a. the Thomas Edison School |
| Here's Fourth District School's application to be on the National Register of Historic places, complete with photo's, history, and maps. |
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Fifth District, 1901 |
| Here's Fifth District School's application to be on the National Register of Historic places, complete with photo's, history, and maps. | ||
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Holman Street School, a.k.a. Fifth District |
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| Here's Fifth District School's application to be on the National Register of Historic places, complete with photo's, history, and maps. | ||
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Sixth District School, c. 1905-1910 |
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Seventh Street School, Colored. Left, 1901; right, 1893. On 7th, between Scott and Madison. Later, the first Lincoln-Grant. Note that it is not the Seventh District, but the Seventh Street School. The city was it's “district.” |
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Kentucky Post, August 8, 1910
New 7th District School
Kentucky Post, August 8, 1910
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Eighth District Public School, in Latonia, 38th at Locke |
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Ninth District School,
1914. In Latonia, at
33rd and Graff
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| Tenth District School On Decoursey, between 45th and 46th. A big thanks to Pam Beyersdoerfer Funai for the image! |
Eleventh District School in
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“The New School” Scott and Robbins |
| Here's the Eleventh District School's application to be on the National Register of Historic places, complete with photo's, history, and maps. | ||
| David Schroeder has written about the 11th District School at the Kentucky Tribune website. | ||
The 1892-94 report of the Covington School Board is a pdf here. It's 157 pages with pictures, budgets, curricula, teacher lists, etc. Good stuff. |
A history of the Covington schools from 1929 is here.
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John G. Carlisle School |
John G. Carlisle, |
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| David Schroeder has written about former US Speaker of the House Carlisle at this site. | ||
Covington Commercial College
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| University of Kentucky, Northern Center, Covington Founded July 1, 1948. |
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More on this original NKU location is at this site.
This building on 7th, between Madison & Scott housed the
Northern Kentucky Vocational Education offices in 1950-51.
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Orr's Female Academy, 1846 |
The Rugby School Students, 1900 |
Built as Dr. Orr's Academy for girls in 1846, the building was the home of Henry Bruce, during the Civil War. Bruce was involved in building the Suspension Bridge, and a supporter of the South. After the war, it became The Rugby School, a boy's military school. Thus, the boys in this picture wearing uniforms and carrying guns. It was on Sanford, just north of 7th backing up on Garrard. It later moved to Fourth and Russell. Read the Rugby School's 1887-88 Second Annual Catalogue here (pdf). See their 1905 yearbook, the Lux Luminum (Light the Lights) at the Cincinnati Public Library's site. |
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Back to School
| “Some eight days ago, and English sparrow accidentally entered one of the air chambers of the Bachelor-street free school, and, falling to the bottom, has been unable to escape. Being a prisoner behind the grated bars at the lower-end of the ventilator, its companions have listened to his cries and brought it daily supplies of food, thus preventing it from starving to death.” Courier-Journal, May 20, 1875, quoting the Covington Ticket. | |
| "After a long controversy the decision that Chinese are not colored permits the
children of this
race to attend the white public schools in Covington, Ky." from The Crisis, November, 1913 |
Mrs. Charles Miller wrote on a few words about early Covington schools. Read them here.(pdf) |
