Bokara Seed Farms, outside Falmouth	A tobacco field outside of Falmouth	L & N Foreman's Home, Menzies Bottoms

 

Mann-Bowen Grocery from the Pendleton Co Picture Hub,		This general store was operated by Elmer Ewing, until 1915 when he sold the store and moved to Panhandle, Texas. The old store building was located near Goforth, in rural Pendleton County. On May 5, 1908 Short Creek Church was struck by lightening & burned to the ground. The church had no insurance, so it was a total loss. Services were held in the second floor hall at the store until the new church was built. At some point, it was known as the Perry Store. from a Pinterest post by the Pendleton County Public Library

 

Kincaid Lake State Park, c. 1972

Blanket Creek and Pearl Schools consolidate
from the Facebook page of the Pendleton County Historical & Genealogical Society

“Blanket Creek, Pendleton County – Quite a village is spring up in this neighborhood, and we bespeak for it a lively place soon, for, two weeks hence, we will be able to boast of a church, school house, Good Templars Hall, blacksmith shop, “pill shop,” dry good store and a millinery store.”  From Covington’s Daily Commonwealth, May 6, 1879

 

“A new post office in Pendleton. Messrs. Editors: Let me introduce Postmaster Colonel Pribble, of Pribble’s Cross Roads, Mt. Auburn, Kentucky”  The Colonel will doubtless make as worthy an official as he is a popular gentleman.” From Covington’s Daily Commonwealth, September 2, 1879.

The people of the Gardnersville vicinity have been much alarmed and surprised at the idea of Stanley Bailey and E. M. Caldwell being arrested and fined for killing a deer.  We do not know who the deer belonged to, but we do know that there are no wild deer in the State of Kentucky.”  Falmouth Outlook, February 16, 1917.

Lenoxburg women threaten a saloonist, here.

“The Board of Directors of the Falmouth & McKinneysburg Telephone company met last Saturday and passed a ruling that all conversations over their lines shall be limited to five minutes.  The manager of the telephone exchange was instructed to enforce this ruling without favor.”  Falmouth Outlook, March 9, 1917

Aluck's Smoke house, on the Milford Road is on the National Register of Historic Places. You can read the application, a pdf, here.

McKinneysburg's Colvin House is on the National Register of Historic Places. You can read the application, a pdf, here.

Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, October 2, 1873

St. John's Catholic Church on Center Ridge Road, Dividing Ridge. From a Facebook post by Mark Allen Black
The Rev. Paul Ryan's History of the St. John's Mission at Dividing Ridge is here.
“The non-Catholics in this area are ignorant and prejudiced,” says this account of St. John's.

 

Roanoke Church from a Pinterest post by Debbie Mann McCandless	Roanoke Church from a Pinterest post by Sharon Wolfe		Roanoke Church from a Facebook post by the Pendleton County Historical and Genealogical Society

 

Bethel Church, 2015 From a Facebook post by Greg Justice	Turner Ridge Baptist Church, 1922 from a Facebook post by Susan Booher Gibson	Neave Church Destroyed by a tornado from a Facebook post by Rick Brown

 

Oakland Christian Church from Facebook posting by Rick Brown

 

Fisher Tabernacle from Facebook postings by Linda Carr Hall

 

Wesley Chapel Methodist Church, near Peach Grove, erected in 1856.
Destroyed in a tornado on March 2, 2012
From a Facebook post by Charles DeMoss

 

The ferry from Moscow (say "mos-coe") Ohio to Pendleton County, where Ivor Road meets Rt. 8.

 

The Pendleton County Ky History and Genealogy Group had this history (pdf) of the Bethel Church.
The church was destroyed by a tornado on December 23, 2015.

 

McKinneysburg Bridge
from the Facebook page of the Pendleton County Historical & Genealogical Society

 

McKinneysburg, Christian Church, c. 1900	Pleasant Ridge Church from a Facebook post by Mark Allen Black	Short Creek Baptist

 

Caddo Store
from the Facebook page of the Pendleton County Historical & Genealogical Society

 

Orange Grove School
From a Facebook post by Fran Carr

Orange Grove School was located on the Robert Asbury farm and can be found on the 1884 precinct map. Today, it would be on Herrington Road near Gumlick. It is no longer standing.

 

Bunker Hill School, on the 3L from a Facebook post by Jackie Vaughn	Murphy School from a Facebook post by Suzan Colbert Taylor

 

Wampum Bridge, on the Lenoxburg Road
From a Facebook post by Jim Newkirk	From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

McKinneysburg Bridge
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

“A friend said at one time when she was in school they made the kids get off the bus and walk across the [McKinneysburg] bridge. The bus would then be driven across. They later built a new bridge and that was the one the barn went through in the '97 flood. The bridge today is a large concrete one. It bypasses the little area the old one did.” A Facebook comment by Ella Field

 

McKinneysburg General Store
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

McMillan's Huckster Truck, a 1915 Armleder, stocking up in Covington, 1916
Anybody recognize where in Covington?
From a Facebook post by Mark Allen Black

Straight Shoot Pike, over Grassy Creek, spring, 1952.	The Bowers Bridge Co. builds the Straight Shoot Pike Bridge, 1907. That's Louis Bower on the right.
These two pictures, and many more outside the area covered by NKY Views, are from the Facebook page Kentucky's Covered Bridges-A Baker's Dozen

Straight Shoot Pike bridge construction, 1907
from a Facebook post of Donal Lee Skirvin

 

Bachelor's Rest, J. L Cummins general store from a Facebook post by No Place Like Home	Walter Cassius “Cash” McMillian's huckster truck, 1915. Details here.	Walter Cassius “Cash” McMillian's general store and huckster wagon, 1913. from the Pendleton County Ky Historical and Genealogical Society

Kentucky Legislature outlaws spirituous or malt beverages in Bachelor's Rest.

Jim Deaton looks back at Bachelors Rest.

The Lexington Herald ran a feature story about Bachelors Rest.

 

Covered Bridge on Straight Shoot Pike, destroyed by arson in 1953
The painting on the left is by Ed Woerner

Goforth School High School Faculty
l-r: Monta Lee Kells, Helen Hamilton, Pansy Brown. Palmore Kyles, Harold Bentle.
from the Facebook page of Fran Carr

Short Creek Baptist at Goforth burns; is rebuilt.  Story is here.	Goforth School, 1969		Murphy School From a Facebook post by Suzan Colbert Taylor

The 1968 Tornado that took a major toll in Falmouth also hit Berlin.

 

Robert's Garage, 1969	Dee's Grocery, Locust Grove, 1969

Locust Grove, from the Pendleton County Historical & Genealogical Society.
See the history of this building at their website.

Locust Grove and Doudton
From a Facebook post by Fran Carr

Cincinnati Times Star, March 24, 1894

The Boston Band, c. 1915 From a Facebook post by Pendleton County Historical & Genealogical Society	Boston, 1883

They found oil in Boston. Or maybe gas. Or maybe gold. And coal.
History of the Boston Union Church is here.   (pdf)	Terrible storm in Boston in 1882.
Legislature makes Boston Station an official city in 1872 (pdf).	Legislature amends the Boston Station charter, 1878.
In 1882, the New York Times ran a story about a man in Boston, Ky. whose three daughters all got married there on the same day.  Full details here.  (pdf)	Boston was the home of the The Licking River Lumber and Mining Company.  Some of the downstate folks didn't care for their tactics.  Read more here.

Cincinnati Daily Gazette, March 22, 1854

We note that between Butler and Falmouth, the railroad lists a stop at Irving, an earlier name for Menzie's Bottom. (Benton was an earlier name for Kenton; Canton was Visalia)

		Cincinnati Commercial, April 21, 1875
Catawba, 1883

Catawba Baptist started as a mission of the Dayton (Ky.) Baptist Church	Legislature enacts law making it illegal to sell liquor near Catawba Baptist, 1878.
The Wefford's of Catawba had their issues.	There's a history of Catawba here.  (pdf)

The Clermont Sun, April 30, 1862	James Rule Klaber's piece on Hayes Station is here.   (pdf)
	The (Washington DC) Evening Critic, December 2, 1882
Our  correspondent reports, from Schuler (Portland). Here.	“Browningsville, in Pendleton county, was the scene of another shooting affray yesterday between two doctors, partners, in which Dr. VanHook shot and seriously wounded his partner, Dr. Riggs.  The quarrel was occasioned by a dispute about a bill, and angry words followed, resulting as above.  The ball entered in such a manner as will probably prove fatal.” from the Covington Ticket, October 16, 1877.
The Bethel Church & Cemetery have their own web site, here.
“Portland. Our village has one store, one blacksmith shop, one school-house, and four dwelling houses.” from the Covington Daily Commonwealth, October 23, 1879	Goforth leads the way, here.
History of Pleasant Hill Christian Church is here.	History of the Concord Church is here. (pdf)
Lenoxburg was incorporated as an official city by the Kentucky Legislature on April 24, 1882, in an act that recognized it was in both Bracken and Pendleton Counties.
Near Cordova, where Grant, Pendleton and Harrison come together is an area known as Crooked Creek.  A site dedicated to the families there is here.
“A William Thornberry, who resides near Kincaid, in Pendleton County, has struck gold on his place, and is preparing to sink a shaft.  Several chunks of a shining metal, supposed to be gold quartz, have already been found, and the “gold fever” rageth in the neighborhood.”   From a Covington newspaper, The Ticket, August 22, 1876	Ferriesville is situated four and a half miles west of Falmouth, with on saw and grist mill, one wagon and blacksmith shop, and about five thousand inhabitants, fifty-two of which are men, women and children.  We also have an empty dry goods store”    from Covington’s Daily Commonwealth, January 8, 1879.
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, January 31, 1850	Daily Wabash Express (Terre Haute, IN), December 17, 1866

Said to be Gardnersville

 

Bowen's Farm Supply, Gardnersville, 1940's and 1976. That's L. E. and Walter Bowen in the image on the left.

The news from Gardnersville, 1877, here.

The news from Gardnersville, 1879, here.

Lynching averted in Gardersville in 1922,

“Gardnersville.  This is a pleasant and business little village.  To give a full description would occupy too much space.  It has one large dry-goods store, owned by Fred. Helmich; two blacksmith shops, carried on respectively by Johnson and Clakekamp; one carriage shop, managed by J. F. Lindner; one grocery, first class barroom and hotel under the supervision of the hospitable T. B. Hightour; one physician, Dr. Allen Williams.  He is a graduate of Ohio College, and has an extensive practice.  We have a good school conducted by Miss. Lou. Hightour.  B. F. Vallandingham is our local trader. He deals extensively in stock for which he pays liberal prices.  Prof. Will Hughes, an excellent artist, is located here.”   from the Covington Daily Commonwealth, November 12, 1879

Sale just outside of Falmouth, 1913
from a Facebook post by Fran Carr

Hayes Valley Distilling Co., Hayes, Ky, 1910		Levengood Distillery, East View From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

Hayes Station is a later name for Levingood / Livingood.

The Hayes Distillery burns, 1906.

 

Levengood Railroad Station Thanks to Sheryl Gruszka for this one.	Levengood from a post of the Pendleton County Historical and Genealogical Society
Pendleton County Historical and Genealogical Society offers this on the location and history of Levingood

 

Cincinnati Daily Press, September 21, 1861

Every county used to have an Infirmary, usually known far and wide as “the poor house,” where they took in the aged, the sick, and those unable to work. right, from a post on Pinterest by Shelby Willis

Dr. G. W. McMillan, Goforth, c. 1903	Represented to us as Pendleton County guys.  If you can name any of them, please drop us an email, here.

The Damon School, Peach Grove, 1937
From a Facebook post by David Barnard

 

Peach Grove's D & A Grocery, 1976

“Peach Grove.  Items are scarce this week, and we will say a few words about our visit to Milford, Bracken county.  We went via Lenoxburg, Berlin, and Powersville, and will say for the route that a better road for a buggy can not be found often.” from the Covington Daily Commonwealth, October 30, 1879

 

Mt. Auburn School
from the Facebook page of the Pendleton County Historical & Genealogical Society

Representative Berry, of Kentucky, today requested the Post office Department to revoke, or at least to suspend, the order establishing the . . . Butler rural free delivery routes in Kentucky.  Strong opposition from the patrons of  . . . Ossipee and Mt. Auburn Post offices is responsible for Mr. Berry's request.“   Cincinnati Enquirer, April 8, 1900

 

Cincinnati Tribune, May 15, 1895

Unfortunately, a very common type of story in the 1800's, of country people in the city.

  

We have no idea where these were taken.  Both are c. 1923.  We know the image on the left is
“somewhere in Pendleton County,” and the one on the right is “between Falmouth and Cynthiana,” so
it may well be Harrison.