Historical Markers and War Memorials in Boone County, Kentucky
Adjacent to Boone County, Kentucky
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On Bullittsburg Church Road (Kentucky Route 8) near Interstate 275, on the left when traveling north.
It has been called the "Mother
Church" because from 1800-1915
its members organized other
churches within the tri-state area.
Between 1871 and 1873, an outdoor
keyhole baptismal pool was built
of stone masonry at the site of a
natural . . . — — Map (db m133224) HM
On Gallatin Street, on the right when traveling west.
This outstanding c. 1910 Bungalow home incorporates many Arts & Crafts design elements
including battered porch columns, 3-over-1 window sash, and a low pitched roof. It was built at the
beginning of mini-building boom in Burlington that lasted . . . — — Map (db m133142) HM
On Kentucky Route 18 at Kentucky Route 338, on the right when traveling west on State Route 18.
In June 1799, Boone County's first
court set Craig's Camp as county
seat. The next year, John H. Craig and Robert Johnson donated 74 acres at the Woolper Creek site for a town they called Wilmington. Court held here in a log courthouse in Jan. . . . — — Map (db m133144) HM
Near Sperti Lane, on the right when traveling south.
Born in Covington to Italian
immigrants, he graduated from
the University of Cincinnati
in 1923. He was the director of
Institutum Divi Thomae, a medical
research foundation, from 1935 to
1988. Sperti invented well-known
pharmaceutical . . . — — Map (db m133141) HM
Near Washington Street (Kentucky Route 18) at Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling west.
Boone County Courthouses Through the Years
1n 1817, Boone County replaced its first log courthouse with a brick structure, which was remodeled in 1828 and again in 1878. The present courthouse was built in 1889 for $19,740. The courthouse . . . — — Map (db m134040) HM
Near Washington Street (Kentucky Route 18) near Jefferson Street (Kentucky Route 338).
Boone County was established in 1799 and the County Court held its first meeting in June of that year, where The Court proceeded to fix on a place for the Seat of Justice on 74 acres offered by Robert Johnson and John H. Craig. Initially known as . . . — — Map (db m134232) HM
Near Washington Street (Kentucky Route 18) near Jefferson Street, on the right.
From its earliest days, Burlington was the hub of a community rooted in farming. Prior to World War II, the majority of people in Boone County lived and worked on farms and the livelihood of nearly everyone else was somehow connected to farming. By . . . — — Map (db m134233) HM
On Kentucky Route 18 at Kentucky Route 338, on the right when traveling west on State Route 18.
There has been a courthouse on this site
since 1799 and the present one is the third
built on the site. Designed by the McDonald
Brothers of Louisville, the Renaissance
Revival style building was completed for
about $20,000. The courthouse . . . — — Map (db m133151) HM
In memory of all the slaves in Boone County,
those who helped them, and the slaves’ descendants
who remember & honor them and their legacy.
Dedicated 21 March, 2005 by the Problem Solving Team, a diverse
group of students, grades five . . . — — Map (db m79290) HM
On Lower River Road, on the right when traveling north.
Side A
Rabbit Hash
Kentucky
circa 1813
Ohio River Mile 506.1 below Pittsburg
one of only a few
remaining early 19th century towns along the 981-
mile course of the Ohio River. The Rabbit Hash
National Registry encompasses 33 acres . . . — — Map (db m79231) HM
On Brlngon Pike (Kentucky Route 18), on the right when traveling south.
Side A
James and Martha Macomb Dinsmore
moved from La. to raise their three
daughters here. Completed in1842,
the main house served as the center
of a typical large, antebellum Boone
Co. farm. tenants and slaves raised
grains, grapes, . . . — — Map (db m79304) HM
Formed by legislative act from a part of Campbell County. Names for Daniel Boone, renowned Kentucky pioneer-explorer.
Big Boone Lick, graveyard of the mammoth, was discovered in 1729 by Capt. M. de Longueil. In 1756, Mary Inglis was brought . . . — — Map (db m61867) HM
On Hopeful Church Road (Kentucky Route 842) east of Clayton Road, on the right when traveling east.
Hopeful Evangelical Lutheran
Church was founded on Epiphany
Day. 1806. by German-speaking
families from Madison County, Virginia.
Called “the Mother of Lutheranism
west of the Allegheny Mountains,”
it is the oldest Lutheran church . . . — — Map (db m136081) HM
On Dixie Highway (U.S. 25) at U.S. 42, on the right when traveling south on Dixie Highway.
Union troops, had built forts around Covington to repel expected attack from CSA troops under Gen. Heth. Detachment of 101 CSA troops camped at Snow's Pond attacked here by scouting party of 53 USA cavalrymen Sept. 17, 1862. In the skirmish 1 Union, . . . — — Map (db m133190) HM
On Kentucky Route 8, on the left when traveling east.
1937 Flood
The Ohio River reached its peak
on Jan. 26 at 79.9 ft. surpassing
the 1884 record. Constance was the
hardest hit town in Boone Co. but
there were no fatalities. Route 8
between Constance & Taylorsport
was almost completely . . . — — Map (db m133629) HM
Near Kentucky Route 236, on the right when traveling south.
The exact center of the
population of the United States
in 1880 was located within a few
hundred yards of this plaque.
North latitude 39° 4' 8"
West longitude 84° 39' 40"
Population base in 1880 was
49,371,340. — — Map (db m133070) HM
On Kentucky Route 8, on the right when traveling east.
American Airlines flight 383, tail
#N1996, was making an approach
in rain when it crashed into this
hillside on November 8, 1965 at
7:01 p.m. The 3-engine Boeing 727
Astrojet was en route from New York
to Cincinnati. 58 people perished
four . . . — — Map (db m133173) HM
On Petersburg Road (Kentucky Route 20) at Aviation Boulevard, on the left when traveling east on Petersburg Road.
TWA flight 128, tail #N821TW, was
making an approach in light snow
when it crashed into an orchard
approximately 1,000 feet north of
here, on November 20. 1967 at 8:57
p.m. The four-engine Convair 880
was en route from Los Angeles . . . — — Map (db m133136) HM
On North Bend Road (Kentucky Route 237) at Wright Boulevard, on the right when traveling south on North Bend Road.
TWA flight 694, tail #N93211, had taken off from the airport when
it was struck by a private DC-3
& fell to the ground approximately
750 feet west of here, on January
12, 1955 at 9:04 a.m. The TWA
Martin 202A was en route to
Cleveland, Ohio & . . . — — Map (db m133123) HM
On Front Street west of Tanner Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Born in Pennsylvania, he moved to
Petersburg in 1858 and lived in a
c. 1840 house at Tanner & Front Sts.
He served as justice of the peace
and operated a tavern in his home
for many years. Loder was hired as
clerk & bookkeeper at the . . . — — Map (db m133205) HM
On Petersburg Rad (Kentucky Route 0) at Tanner Street on Petersburg Rad.
Tanner’s Station 1789
First settlement in Boone County.
Rev. John Tanner built blockhouse,
and town began on 2000 acres he
and John Taylor owned. Shawnees
captured Tanner’s 9-year-old son
here, held him until grown. An
ardent Baptist, Tanner . . . — — Map (db m79310) HM
On Richwood Road (Kentucky Route 338), on the right when traveling west.
Home site of John Pollard Gaines.
1795-1857. Fought in War of 1812.
In state legislature, 1825-36.
Major in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry and
an aide-de-camp to Gen. Winfield
Scott, in Mexican war. Elected to
Congress, 1847-49, while prisoner
of . . . — — Map (db m133213) HM
On Route 338 at Richwood Church Road, on the right when traveling west on Route 338.
Services have been held by this
old church continuously since it
was founded in 1834 by Joseph
Cabell Harrison, first pastor. He
and cousin John Breckinridge in
1824 founded early religious paper
in Ky. A cousin of Pres. William
H. Harrison. . . . — — Map (db m133216) HM
Near Beaver Road (Kentucky Route 338) west of U.S. 127.
Discovered in 1739, by the French
Capt. Charles Lemoyne de Longueil
this famous saline- sulphur spring
was frequented for thousands of
years byIndians and vast herds of
buffalo, deer and other animals.
The first English explorers found . . . — — Map (db m79060) HM
On Beaver Road west of Route 127, on the right when traveling west.
Scientists consider William Clark’s
dig at Big Bone Lick in 1807 as
establishing American vertebrate
paleontology. Bones found here
by Clark included mastodon and
mammoth. Prehistoric native
American artifacts found were given
to Dr. Wm. . . . — — Map (db m79062) HM
On Beaver Road (Kentucky Route 338), on the left when traveling west.
Big Bone Methodist Church
Big Bone Methodist Church was constructed in 1888
The original congregation, which was organized in 1887
and led by Reverend George Froh, helped in the construction.
As was the custom, a social order lodge shared the . . . — — Map (db m79030) HM
On U.S. 42 near Old Union Road, on the right when traveling west.
On Nov. 28, 1863, after escaping
from Ohio Penitentiary & taking a
train to Cincinnati, CSA Gen. John
Hunt Morgan & Capt. Thomas Hines
crossed the Ohio River to Ludlow.
Sympathetic Boone County residents,
as well as Big Bone Baptist . . . — — Map (db m136082) HM
On Beaver Road (Kentucky Route 338) west of Route 127, on the right when traveling west.
In Oct. 1803, while traveling down
Ohio River to meet Wm. Clark for
expedition to Pacific, Meriwether
Lewis visited Big Bone Lick. He
was to gather fossilized bones for
Pres. Thomas Jefferson. In Sept.
1807, Clark supervised a 3-week
dig for . . . — — Map (db m79088) HM
On Beaver Road west of Route 127, on the right when traveling west.
In celebration & commemoration
of
the 250th anniversary of the daring escape of
Mary Draper Ingles
from her Shawnee captors here at
Big Bone Lick, Kentucky in the fall of 1755
Her direct descendants met here for a family reunion
to . . . — — Map (db m79073) HM
On Beaver Road west of U.S. 127, on the right when traveling west.
Reputed first white woman in Ky.
Shawnees captured her and two sons
in July 1755 at site Roanoke, Va.
Led to village at mouth of Scioto River,
separated from sons, taken to Big
Bone Lick. compelled to make salt
here; adopted by chief; given . . . — — Map (db m79071) HM
On Lower River Road, on the left when traveling west.
Side A
Piatt's Landing
Near here on the north bank of the
Ohio River at mile 510.5 was a
riverboat landing, ferry, and road
to the courthouse at Burlington.
The landing and large brick home
that once stood near, later called
Winnfield . . . — — Map (db m79142) HM
On Old Nicholson Road north of Main Street (U.S. 25), on the right when traveling north. Reported missing.
In 1790s Abner Gaines built this Federal-style mansion and became owner of first stage line between Lexington and Cincinnati, 1818. House used as inn and stagecoach stop. It has 3 stairways and 10 carved mantels. Abner’s son, John P. Gaines, was . . . — — Map (db m136083) HM
On Dixie Highway (U.S. 25) 0.3 miles south of Logistics Boulevard, on the left when traveling south.
During 1862 Confederate invasion,
rebel forces under General Basil W
Duke searched for approaches to
Cincinnati. On September 25, 1862,
over 500 attacked a federal camp
here commanded by Brig. Gen. Quincy
A. Gillmore. Many USA prisoners
were . . . — — Map (db m133217) HM
On School Road at Alta Vista Drive, on the right when traveling south on School Road.
Side 1 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) company
3541 began here in July 1935 on a former ball
park site owned by John L. Vest. Known as
Camp Bean Ridge to the 200 men stationed
here, it was 1 of 44 CCC camps in Kentucky
In all, more . . . — — Map (db m133269) HM
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