Assembly Building, Falmouth	Highway Department Building, c. 1927	Shelby Avenue, Looking  West, Falmouth

c. 1959	c. 1950
from a Facebook post by Rick Brown	from a Facebook post by Greg Justice	From a Facebook post by Juanita Thornton Hughes, via Fran Carr

The Arrow

 

The caption says this is the Masonic Temple, and it was, but you more likely know it as Houchen's Clothes and Shoes, operating in this location from 1939 to 1997.  It was used by the KKK and the Odd Fellows as well as the Masons.  The third floor was added later; the original building is from 1873. This image is c. 1910.

In 1914, they re-named a lot of Falmouth Streets. Old and new names here.

Main Street Looking South	Main Street Looking North

 

If you run into references to “Cyn Pike,” that's a shortened version of Cynthiana Pike, a.k.a. Main Street.

 

1969 Set Up	1969 Street Fair

 

Shelby Street Scenes, From Facebook posts by Greg Justice

 

Main Street, 1969

 

l-r: Roy Blevins; Jim Walton, Butler policeman; Jim Hammond, Falmouth policeman; Earl Gillespie, jailer; Joe Green, Falmouth policeman.	Court Day in Falmouth

 

Aerial Views of Falmouth left, from a Facebook post by Denny Lipscombe		Avenue, Looking West from Main	Shelby Avenue, Looking West from Main, Falmouth, c. 1910

 

 

The catch of the day

Falmouth street scene
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

			from a Facebook post by Emily Fisher Greene

Falmouth Street Scenes

New York Tribune, April 23, 1888

Park and Shelby
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

The circus is coming to town
Falmouth Outlook, April 17, 1908

 

Falmouth Utilities, 1928
Read all about the Falmouth Utility Company, here.

Looking north  on Main Street	Looking south on Main Street	Falmouth Post  Office, 1941	Shelby Avenue, Looking  West from Main, Falmouth

 

	Oldham Mansion in Shoemakertown		Shoemakertown in the 1937 Flood
	from the Pendleton Co Picture Hub, from Rick Brown	from the Pendleton Co Picture Hub, from Deborah Orr	from Facebook posts by the Pendleton County Historical and Genealogical Society

 

This map is keyed to this document, which is a walking tour of
Falmouth, with details on the various buildings noted on the map.
Interesting stuff.

Cincinnati Daily Press, April 22, 1861

The full story of the balloon journey

The 1793 Act that created Falmouth is here. But evidently there was some discussion about the plats, so in 1811, the legislature passed a clarifying act. In 1856, the legislature passed additional Falmouth stipulations.
“The Falmouth and Williamstown Telephone Company has completed its line from Falmouth to Boyd, which gives Falmouth telephone connections with all of the towns of central Kentucky.”    from Telephone Magazine, October, 1901		“J. R. Poindexter, Cynthiana, Ky., was awarded the contract for the constructing water  works in Falmouth for $13,793.20.”  from Municipal Engineering, January, 1896
Falmouth is named after Falmouth, Virginia (Wikipedia).	The story of the 1887 lynching of William Jackson, here. More here, and here.	William Jennings Bryan (Wikipedia) comes to Falmouth, here.
The murder trial of Verner Lee Spegal.
Falmouth extends its boundaries in 1874.	“A genuine wolf is reported to have been caught and killed by a pack of hounds one day last week, one mile east of the Levengood Station.” Covington Journal, March 27, 1875, reprinting from the Falmouth Outlook.	“Every boy in town has one of those terrible whistles. If the man who introduced them in Falmouth could be got a hold of it is hard to tell what manner of severe punishment he would be subjected to.” Covington Journal, March 27, 1875, reprinting from the Falmouth Outlook.
We seem to have two Falmouth Women's Club histories from 1926, here and here.	A Union commander reports Falmouth Status in 1862, here.	In 1917, the Falmouth Outlook ran a history of Falmouth in it's 65 Years Ago column. Read it here.
The big issue at the Falmouth City Council meeting of July 22, 1925 was whether or not to turn on electrical current for the town on Sunday. It was at that time only available six days a week. They voted to turn it on,because “the shutdown on Sunday was causing a good deal of inconvenience to people of Falmouth.” Falmouth Outlook, July 24, 1925
“Twenty-one slaves in the vicinity of Falmouth, Kentucky , escaped on Sunday, and made toward Canada, on the underground railroad.” The National Era, newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society. June 22, 1854
The 1925 proposal to build a dam on the Licking.	30 Falmouth women form a Union military unit in 1861.	There were concerns that the Downard Brothers will be lynched.
The Falmouth Library Association was established in 1851.	Description of Falmouth from 1853, here.	It says here the Falmouth is one of the liveliest towns in the state.
Dr. H. C. Clark's 1928 When Falmouth Was a Babe in Swaddling Clothes is here. (pdf)	In 1928, the L & N Employees Magazine ran a feature story on Falmouth.  You can read the entire article here. (pdf)	“Sneak thieves carried off about forty dollars' worth of underwear left to soak in a tub in Mr. Herold's yard, on Pike street, last night; also a half dozen chickens.”  Covington's The Ticket, on May 8, 1877,

 

Big fire in Falmouth, 1884.

“Falmouth suffered a loss of about $40,000 early this morning and not a cent of insurance.  McDonald’s Distillery, flour mill and ware-house caught fire about two o’clock and were completely destroyed.  The fire is supposed to have been occasioned by the bursting of a column.  The machinery was new and had been in but a few weeks.  The work of rebuilding will at once be commenced.”     Covington's Kentucky Journal, Thursday, March 21, 1893

Falmouth cemetery established in 1866. But then there's this:

from A Geographical Dictionary of the United States of North America, Joseph Scott, Philadelphia, 1805.