Booker & Humphrey Filling Station, Cynthiana Pike	Bob's Service Station, c. 1938 Corner of Main & Second, Route 22 Bob Hampton owned it; Dick Jacob ran it.	Shell Station, 1973 Gene Faulkner, Carlis McDowell and Jim Morrison.

In front of Shoemaker Chevrolet, February 4, 1938 looking toward Shelby on Main		Vernon M. Thomas stands behind a 1936 Chevrolet coupe in front of Shoemaker's Garage in, probably in the summer of 1936 or 1937. In the background is the competition:  the M.S. Myers Machine Shop & Garage, offering authorized Buick service.		Shoemaker Garage employees
See this site for more details for more Details on Mr. Thomas

 

An early Applegate's
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

Solomon Goldberg's Store. Adults are Sol and Jenny, parents of long-time Falmouth mayor Max Goldberg from a Facebook post by Jackie Vaughn	R. W. Lemmon's Carriage Shop, c. 1910. Later the site of Charles Lemmon's Chrysler-Plymouth, now part of the Baptist Church's parking lot. from a Facebook post by R. W. Lemmon's great-grandson, Joe Lemmon

 

The Ice Man, Ernest Franklin Sharp
from the Pendleton Co Picture Hub,
from Suzan Colbert Taylor

“Falmouth- Ky.-The Owenton & Williamstown Telephone Company has completed its line from Falmouth to Boyd, which gives Falmouth telephone connection with all the towns of central Kentucky.”  The Telephone Magazine, of October, 1901.

“Falmouth, Ky. - The Falmouth Electric Light and Motive Power Company has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $50,000.  J. C. Hamilton is one of the incorporators.”  from the weekly Light, Heat and Power, April 3, 1890.

 

Tobacco Coming to Market  in Falmouth	Falmouth Carriage Shop On Ferry St. (now 2nd St.), East of Main. Joe Lemmon tells us more.	Ladies Hats, Falmouth, circa 1915

 

Watson's store is on the National Register of Historic Places. You can read the application, a pdf, here.

The Central Falmouth business district, roughly bounded by Shelby, 2nd, Montjoy, and Main Streets, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Here. And also here. Both are pdf's

 

Falmouth Outlook, 1922	Warren Shonert, long-time publisher of the Outlook

 

Radio Business reports WIOK sale on January 30, 1987.
WIOK was first granted a license on April 26, 1978.

George Bradford	Charles Thompson	J. B. Woolery
The above three banker pictures were accompanied by this story, about them, and the banks in Falmouth they worked for.
Remember the Falmouth Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Bank? We thought not. There was one. Details on the four locally owned Pendleton County Banks, in 1907, are here.
Citizens Bank Building on Shelby. Later, The Falmouth Deposit Bank		J. Risk Meek We've known some bankers who were meek at taking risks, but we never met one who was named that.  c. 1903.
The Falmouth Pendleton Bank of Falmouth closed due to a run on the bank in 1931.  Story here.

The Falmouth Deposit Bank was established in 1876.

Bank Notes from the First National Bank of Falmouth	front	back

 

from the Falmouth Branch of the Bank of the Commonwealth, 1821

“The Pulltight Tattler is the name of a fast and loose paper which has made an appearance in Pendleton county, Kentucky.” Indianapolis News, October 3, 1874	The Weekly Guide was a pre-Civil Ware paper in Falmouth
Falmouth Saw Mill burns in 1909, read about it here.	Description of Held's Bike & Jewelry Store, circa 1898, here.
“The Falmouth council has passed an ordinance closing all business houses on Sunday.”  Louisville Courier-Journal, May 28, 1882
“The distillery of Dr. McMahon, on main Licking, near Falmouth, in Pendleton county, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning about 1 o'clock. The fire was supposed to be the work of an incendiary.” from the Courier-Journal, January 20, 1870	In 1874 Falmouth is noted as having gone dry. In 1880, there are reports of 9 saloons open and more on the way. Stories here.
“The distillery of Dr. McMahon, on Main Licking, near Falmouth, in Pendleton county was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning about four o'clock.  The fire was supposed to be the work of an incendiary.”  the Carrollton Democrat, January 22, 1870	“The Falmouth Electric Light and Motive-Power Company, of Falmouth, Ky., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000.  J. C. Hamilton, J. W. Thompson, J. N. Riggle and others incorporators.” from an issue of Light, Heat and Power, April 3, 1890
“A young gentleman from the country, evidently of a sporting nature, walked into Mr. Smith’s blacksmith shop one day last week, and while standing near the anvil, upon which Mr. Smith was welding some iron, a spark, it is supposed, found its way into the side-pocket of his cot, setting fire to a quarter if a pound of gunpowder, which exploded with a terrific noise.  The force of the explosion, together with his own exertions, blew the young man about 20 feet in a very cunning position.  No serious injury.” From the Falmouth Independent, as reprinted in the Covington Journal, May 11, 1872

Willie McGee, 1969, in the Kennett Tavern Building	“The Trolley, Four Miles South of Falmouth, Kentucky on U.S. Highway 27.  We Specialize in Home Cooking.” a.k.a. the Golden Rule Trolley, and run by N. S. and Goldie McKinley

 

Chili Palace	Barber Albert Plummer		Mazer's. You more likely know it as Houchen's	Meat Market
From Facebook post by Greg Justice

Tobacco Warehouse
From a Facebook post by the Pendleton County Historical and Genealogical Society

 

Schanding's, a.k.a. Lakeside Inn, From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

Shoemaker Sawmill, c. 1890	The old blacksmith building at 2nd and Park From a Facebook post by Greg Justice	Falmouth Woolen Mills From a Pinterest post by Sharon Wolfe

 

Water and Montjoy From a Facebook post by Greg Justice	Boeher Motors sells Whippets at the Fair. From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

Bertram's
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

 

Roy M. Wilson's Dry Goods Store, 1927
From a Facebook post by Pendleton County Historical & Genealogical Society

 

Carl M. Frazer's Buick dealership Main Street (Earlier, Shoemaker's. See above)	Godman's Garage and Restaurant, US 27. The building was originally on W. Shelby and was moved when they put in the “new” 27. Missy Osborne tells us: “The original restaurant burnt and my grandfather purchased the lot and built the building shown above from the lumber from the two-room Mt. Auburn schoolhouse. The restaurant was moved to this location in the late 40’s.”

 

Conrad's Hardware, earlier, Barnes Hardware from Facebook posts by Greg Justice			Weaver's Supply and Feed, on Montjoy from a Facebook post by Greg Justice
The Grand Opening of the Conrad and Barnes Furniture Store, 1960

 

There's no doubt that somebody out there knows a lot more about
this one than than we do.  Feel free to contact us, or post information on our Facebook page.

 

This is an AP Wire photo of the 1964 flood in Falmouth.  Keep in mind that the dog is standing on top of an automobile.  Billy Thompson is the photographer. Warner's Store Garage on US 27 and Barkley St., later it became Pic-N-Pac

Want ad from 1814. 1814!
from the Union, a Washington, Kentucky newspaper, from July 2, 1814

 

Lemon Brothers
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

Kentucky Utilities
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

R. W. Lemmon and son Robert Wilburn Lemmon painting a 1921 (?) Buick Touring car owned by R. Risk Arnold. From a Facebook post by Fran Carr, via Joe Lemmon

 

Both of these, the past and the future, next to each other, in the February 16, 1917 Falmouth Outlook.

 

Studebaker's available at J. J. Austin's		Pontiac's and Victory's at Lemmon's Garage

 

Booher's sells Whippets	Shoemaker sells Chevy's	Pendleton Auto sells Chryslers

“The second number of the first volume of the Pendleton Press, published in Falmouth, comes to
us this week. The paper is one of the largest in the State, and, if its future issues be as good as
the one front of us, it deserves encouragement from the citizens of Pendleton county.”
Courier-Journal, November 15, 1870

“J. R. Williams, who has purchased the Falmouth Guide, will change the name of the paper to the Pendletonian.”
Courier-Journal, February 28, 1898

“A new weekly paper,to be called The Falmouth Independent will be issued July 27th,
and every week thereafter, at Falmouth. Jas. A. Wondelohr is editor and proprietor. The Independent
will, as its name implies, be independent in all things” Courier-Journal, July 21, 1871

Fisher's Motel
From a Facebook post by Lisa Arnold

 

Fishers Motel	Fishers Motel and Restaurant The restaurant to this motel was later named the “Stop and Tell.”  It and the motel were both torn down  in September of 1993.	Fishers Garage & Chevrolet Dealership US 27 in Falmouth

 

An ad for Falmouth's Weekly Guide, from 1885. “Independent in All things; neutral in nothing”	Attorney's envelopes, c. 1894 Lithography was more artistic before they invented computers . . .

from the Covington Journal, October 27, 1848

 

Falmouth had three hotels in the 1930's - the Phoenix, the LLL, and Shelby. Each had about 16 rooms.
The end of the Kennett Hotel.
The Koch Hotel was torn down in 1964. Story's here.   (pdf)	Read about Falmouth's Phoenix Hotel, here.  (pdf)

Later, there was the Dixie A Hotel. Greg Justice tells us more (pdf).

 

The Kefauver Report (pdf), from the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce reprinted a list the Cincinnati Post compiled of all of the illegal gambling machines it found in Northern Kentucky. This is Falmouth's.