Our Rich History: Mary Means meets Maiden Foot, a Native American, and kindnesses are exchanged
By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune Mary Means was an eleven-year-old girl in 1763. Her parents were settlers on land…
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Our Rich History: Griffin Yeatman’s Square and Compass Tavern, the heart of early Cincinnati
By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune Griffin Yeatman arrived in Cincinnati on June 20, 1793. He was born on March…
Our Rich History: New book, PBS documentary shine national attention on John A. Roebling Bridge
By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune The John A. Roebling Bridge, connecting Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, has always…
Our Rich History: James Wilkinson, Kentucky politician, American general — and Spanish spy
By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune “In all our history, there is no more despicable character.” Theodore Roosevelt While the…
Our Rich History: The Deweys and the development of Palm Beach County, Florida
By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune Part 1 of a continuing series on Kentuckians and Ohioans in the development…
Our Rich History: World War I — a confusing array of ethnic tensions as citizens are harassed, terrorized
Part 9 of a continuing series on World War I By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune On May 20,…
Our Rich History: Vic Canfield and others preserving Covington, helping the past come alive today
By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune This is first in a series on the preservation and revitalization of Northern…
Our Rich History; John Filson; first Kentucky historian, forgotten Cincinnati founder
By Steve Preston Special to the NKyTribune In his book Daniel Boone, John Mack Faragher describes John Filson as the…
Our Rich History: Poverty, homelessness, a challenge throughout our region’s history that persists today
By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune A portion of this column originally appeared in Our Rich History on December…
Our Rich History: Ohio Valley land in demand; four flags flew over Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky
By Steve Preston Special to the NKyTribune Did you know that Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky have been considered French, British,…
Our Rich History: The Cincinnati German origins of Memorial Day — here’s the connection
By Don Heinrich Tolzmann Special to NKyTribune While doing research for The Cincinnati Germans in the Civil War by Gustav…
Our Rich History: How World War I affected our region in May 1918 — citizenship, service, grand jury
By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune World War I was one of history’s most unfortunate and confusing conflicts. Europe’s…
Our Rich History: Remember April 23, 1968, when a destructive tornado stuck Falmouth?
By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to the NKyTribune I vividly remember Tuesday, April 23, 1968. It was nine days after…
Our Rich History: Third District School is now an office building, Fifth Street Center in Covington
By David E. Schroeder Special to NKyTribune Travelers taking the Fifth Street Interstate-75 exit into Covington see this building often,…
Our Rich History: William Behringer’s 1904 visit to the St. Louis World’s Fair changed a young man’s life
by Jason French Special to NKyTribune Is there a time that you can point to in your life that, through…
Our Rich History: ‘Appearance of a Town of Some Respectability’ — part two on 18th-Century Cincinnati
Part two of a series. By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune The relationship between civilians and the military in Cincinnati…
Our Rich History: 18th Century Cincinnati — ‘The Appearance of a Town of Some Respectability’
By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune Cincinnati in its early years was not the cultured “Queen City” we know today….
Our Rich History 1968: Riots erupt in Cincinnati following assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Part 2 of a continuing series on the 50th anniversary of one of America’s great watershed years, 1968. By Paul…
Our Rich History: 1968, a turning point in U.S. and Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky history
Part 1 of a continuing series on the 50th anniversary of one of America’s great watershed years, 1968. By Paul…
Our Rich History: Remembering one of NKy’s forgotten high schools – St. James, Ludlow
By David E. Schroeder Special to NKyTribune We often think of schools as having a permanence about them. Once they…
Our Rich History: Anybody remember 11th District School? Part of interesting history of West Covington
By David E. Schroeder Special to the NKyTribune The Covington Independent School District at one time was home to more…
Our Rich History: St. Patrick in Covington was once a thriving Irish-American parish in the West End
By David E. Schroeder Special to NKyTribune Irish Catholics settled in Northern Kentucky as early as the 1830s. In time…