Our Rich History: Cincinnati and the Fourth Estate — getting the news on the frontier through today
By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune Getting the news on the frontier in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky was a challenge….
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Our Rich History: A 14,000 mile per hour shaking, Cincinnati and the New Madrid earthquakes
By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune On December 16, 1811, Cincinnati was shaking loose its “frontier town” reputation — literally….
Our Rich History: The story of one of NKY’s wealthiest women, Keturah Moss Leitch Taylor, and her empire
By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune When Major David Leitch, founder of Leitch’s Station in present-day Wilder, Kentucky, died in…
Our Rich History: David Leitch and Leitch’s Station; today, it’s Wilder, earliest settlement in Campbell Co.
by Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune The earliest settlement in Northern Kentucky’s Campbell County was Leitch’s Station, circa 1789-91. Founded…
Our Rich History: Covington/Northern Kentucky Townhouses match for homes in Charleston, S.C.
By Margaret McDonough Special to NKyTribune The mysterious origin of the Covington/Northern Kentucky Townhouse is hiding in plain sight in…
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…
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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…
Our Rich History: In March 1836, the Alamo fell; more to the story on our region’s connections to Texas
By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune Every March, many who enjoy history can’t help but think of the Alamo. This…
Our Rich History: Regional African-American inventor and WWI veteran, Fred McKinley Jones, honored
By Lois Hamill Special to NKyTribune The pocket watch had stopped ticking. The little boy took it apart to see…
Our Rich History: Shillito’s, the late 20th, early 21st Centuries; as Macy’s downtown store shuts down
Part 5 of a continuing series on Cincinnati’s grand downtown department stores By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune In…
Our Rich History: Shillito’s downtown store reaches its peak, World War II through the 1960s
Part 4 of a continuing series on Cincinnati’s grand downtown department stores By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune In…