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Thanks to Greg Justice for his kind permission to allow us to use these images, a great many of which
originally appeared on his Facebook Page Old Falmouth Pictures.

 

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St. looking toward Shelby St., up to
Chapel St., curving around the ball field.		    
     

 

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A page from the Falmouth Outlook, May 3, 1968

 

Falmouth Holiness Falmouth Holiness Falmouth Holiness
Falmouth Pilgrim
Holiness Church		 The Highway
department magnet		 Mennonites
came to help

 

Waterworks Homeless A.M.E. Church
Waterworks A list of those left homeless A.M.E. Church

 

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  A list of those left homeless A.M.E. Church

 

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A UPI wire service photo of the 1968 tornado
The story that ran with it is here.

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Dr. Paul Tenkotte has written about the 1968 Tornado at this site.
Two tornado coverage stories from the May 3, 1968 Falmouth Outlook Warren Shonert's column. Cows impaled with tobacco sticks Notes from around the county.
The Cincinnati's Enquirer's tornado story focused on Falmouth, but also covered Dover.
The Enquirer ran a follow-up story in October of 1968.

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From a New Year's Day Tornado in 1948

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Six mile wide “hurricane” strikes near Falmouth in 1828.

“Tornado at Falmouth, Ky. -- A terrible tornado passed over Falmouth on the Kentucky Central railroad on Friday evening. It was of so tempestuous and violent a character as to cause the unroofing of several houses, among them being the Catholic church.” Evansville (Ind) Daily Journal, April 24, 1860

 

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Tampico (IL) Tornado, March 29, 1884


Devastating tornadoes and heavy rains hit Pendleton County on July 7, 1915,  here, here, and here.  See the details of all the Northern Kentucky damage here.

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