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Current Edition

Volume XIX, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2012)

  • Pioneers of progress: The Southgate Family [Part I] - Melinda Sartwell
  • The Peculiar Institution of Augusta College  - Teri Horsley
  • N. Ky. Wineries Flourish Today on Historic Terraces  - Andrea Dee
  • Rope Walks & The Bonte Company of Dayton, KY – Gretchen Gauldin
  • Anti-Bellum Politics & Henry Clay - Karl Lietzenmayer
  • African-American Boy Scouts in N. Ky. in 1940s - Theo. H. Harris

Volume XIX, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2011)

  • Cincinnati Union Terminal: Temple of Progress – Sheryn Labate
  • Civil War Women of Valor  - Gina Russ
  • Sylvester Victor Eifert, Organist  - Anne Herbert
  • Powhatan Beaty Metal of Honor Recipient
  • Fedders Family & J. H. Fedders Feed Co. -  Karl Lietzenmayer

Previous Editions

Volume XVIII, No. 2 (Spring/Smmer 2011)

  • A Home of Our Own – Ft. Mitchell -- Dr. Paul Tenkotte
  • Newport Steel Mill – A Long History of Mfgr - Karl Lietzenmayer
  • Holmes High Band – Best in the Nation - Robert Webster
  • The Ernst Family of Covington - Clare Poynter
  • Motch Jewelers – 5 Generations in Business - Karl Lietzenmayer

Volume XVIII, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2010)

  • Lily’s Chocolate Shop -- Chris & Ronnin Einhaus
  • Lagoon Amusement Park, Ludlow, KY -- David Schroeder
  • Michael Cassidy (1755-1829) Fleming County Pioneer -- Mary Ann Wainscott
  • Schwab, Koehnken, Grimm, Master 19th Century Organ Builders -- Karl Lietzenmayer
  • Frederick M. Jones, Black Inventor -- Sheryn Labate
  • The Church in Chains, Boone County -- Analisa Mason
  • Private Tutors & Educating Girls (1800-1850) -- Gina Russ

Volume XVII, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010)

  • The Bravest of Them All: The Legend of Stan Bowman -- John M. Lucas
  • History and Haunting of 44 Licking Pike (Bobby Mackey’s) -- Crystal Cruze
  • An American Nurse: Hidden from the Enemy by the Enemy --Caroline R. Miller
  • Recent Roebling Research: John Roebling Family in Greater Cincinnati -- Don H. Tolzmann
  • Wendling Printing Company: A Family Affair -- Betty M. Daniels
  • Mother of God Choral Club: A 70-year Covington Tradition Disbanded -- Karl Lietzenmayer

Volume XVII, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2009)

  • Ormsby Mitchel, 19th Century Carl Sagan--Karl Lietzenmayer
  • Todd-Bradford House, Seminary Square, Covington--Jonathan Meyer
  • Know-Nothing Party in Kentucky--Dr. J.T. Spence
  • Lincoln in Cincinnati--Dr. Paul Tenkotte
  • Juliet Miles: Female Conductor in the Borderlands--Carolyn R. Miller
  • Edmund Forrest, America’s First Shakespearian Actor--Jack Wessling

Volume XVI, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2009)

  • Lafayette: His Remarkable Life & 1825 Triumphal Tour of Kentucky--Karl Lietzenmayer

  • Sisters of Notre Dame--Sister Joan Nicklas, SND
  • Camp Springs Stone Houses--Betty Daniels, photos by Don Wiedeman
  • N. Ky. Medal of Honor Winners--Jack Wessling

Volume XVI, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2008)

  • Before the Age of Steam – Flatboats & Keelboats--Carl Bogardus

  • Captain Henry Shreve: Father of the American Steamboat--from: Carl Bogardus

  • Cornerstone of a Community – West Covington--Ron Einhaus

  • Under the Scalping Knife: Battle of Blue Licks--J. Erick Walter

  • Simon Girty: A Short Biography--K. Lietzenmayer

  • Henry Watterson: Crusading Newspaperman--Billy Reed

  • Morgan Academy, Burlington: An Archaeological Study--Gina Russ

  • Irish Immigrants in Harrison County--Philip A. Naff

Volume XV, No. 2 (Spring/Summer2008)

  • The Winston Family & Their Legacy --Erica Wagner

  • Earthquakes & Northern Kentucky --Robert D. Webster

  • Holy Cross High School – History --Robert Knox

  • The Ky. Raid/The Cassopolis Outrage (Slave escape 1848) --Debian Marty

  • No Halloween Tonight – Harrison County & 1918 Spanish Flu --Phillip Naff

  • W.S. Haviland & Cynthiana Civil War Damage Claims --William Penn

Volume XV, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2007)

  • J. H. Kruse, War & the Terrible Threateners - Anti-German
  • Hysteria in World War I Covington - Lisa Gillham & Bethany Pollitt
  • Separated at Birth: The McDonald Bros. Courthouses - Matt Becher
  • Lustron Living - Kim O'Connell

Vol XIV, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2007)

  • William Clark at Big Bone Lick 1807 - Donald Clare Jr.
  • St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Alexandria KY - Joshua Lang
  • Selling a Dream: The Founding of NKU - Melinda Sartwell
  • The Balcony is Closed - A History of K. Ky. Movie Theatres - Robert D. Webster
  • Chester Geaslen: N. Ky's First 20th Century Historian - Dr. James Ramage
  • Mountain Island: A Free Black Community in Owen County - Chris Melfi

Vol XIV, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2006)

  • Covington's Monte Casino - Chapel, Winery, Monastery? by Robert Webster
  • Postmarked Covington, A Philatelic Display by Janet Klug
  • Country Stores by Diane Perrine-Coon
  • St. Paul Catholic Church, Florence, KY by Robert Langenderfer
  • With 'Marvelous Celerity and Valor': The Black Brigade of Cincinnati by Alvin L. Bartlett
  • Joseph Kuchle Family by Carol Kuchle Whitehead

 

Volume XIII, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2006)
  • R. A. Jones Manufacturing: A Ky. Centenary Company - Vanessa de los Reyes & Kelly Carnahan Hemmert
  • Burlington's Cornfield Edison: Frank S. Milburn - Matthew E. Becher
  • Lurking Rebels: Civilian Arrests in Harrison County During Civil War - William A. Penn
VOL XIII, NO. 1 (Fall/Winter 2005)
  • Immigrant Industrialists - Droege & Bogenschutz Families Joyce Edmondson & Barbara Droege with James R. Deters
  • Devou Park P. Andrew Spoor
  • Hogs, Lawyers and Governors: How Politics Changed the Hatfield & McCoy Feud Bethany Richter
Volume XII, Number 2 (Spring/Summer2005)
  • Henry Bruce & John Hunt Morgan   Steven McMurtry
  • May's Lick: Asparagus Bed of Mason County  Lynn David & Liz Comer
  • Civil War Defences of Cincinnati & Hooper Battery  Kenneth Crawford
Volume XII, Number 1 (Fall/Winter 2004)
  • Covington's Baker-Hunt Foundation
    Fran Whitson & Margaret Jacobs
  • Twenty Minutes 'Til Daylight
    Wreck on the Southern Railroad Hal D. Burge
  • The Gaines Tavern of Walton: More Than Just Rumors
    Liz Comer
  • Slavery & the Tragic Story of Two Families - Gaines & Garner 
    Ruth W. C. Brunings
  • Slavery & Its Aftermath in Boone County 
    Paul Tanner
  • John G. Carlisle
    John Boh
  • National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Volume XI, Number 1 (Fall/Winter 2003)

  • Story of Villa Madonna Academy & The Benedictines
    Teresa Wolking, OSB & Joann Schwartz
  • Silver Grove, Kentucky: Not a Company Town
    Betty Daniels
  • The Civil War Hospitals of Covington, Ky.
    Jack Simon
  • Margaret Garner - Why Did She Do It?
    Eileen Gaston
  • Abolitionists of Augusta Ky's "White Hall" Arthur & James Thome
    Caroline Miller
  • Hooper Battery - Civil War Fortification Preserved
    Kathy Romero
  • Stephen Foster - First American Composer

Volume X, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 2003)

Thomas Jefferson & Big Bone Lick, Kentucky
Don Clare
York – The Slave Who Went With Lewis & Clark
Karl Lietzenmayer
Nine Young Men From Kentucky
George Yater
George Shannon – One of the Nine From Kentucky
Carolyn Denton
The Louisiana Purchase & The Eastern Legacy
Karl Lietzenmayer
Henry Harrison – Confederate Spy
Bernie Becker

Volume X, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2003)

  • Cathedral Basilica of Covington
    Karl J. Lietzenmayer
  • Frank Duveneck – Painter & Teacher
    Karl Lietzenmayer & Lisa Gillham
  • Petersburg Distillery Part 2
    Matthew E. Becher
  • Escape from Indian Captivity – Mary Ingles & Son Thomas
    from Allen Eckert & John Ingles

Volume IX, No. 2  (Spring/Summer 2002)

  • Great Escapes – The Underground Railroad
    Diane Perrine Coon
  • Perryville Battle – The Aftermath
    Stuart Sanders
  • Historic Structures – Odd Fellows, Terrill House, Vendome, Carrollton Façade
    Staff
  • Early Homesteads of Ft. Thomas
    Betty Maddox Daniels
  • The Distillery at Petersburg, Kentucky – Part I
    Matthew E. Becher

Volume IX, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2001)

  • Leon Lippert: Rediscovering the Art & the Man
    T.J. Lippert
  • Lt. Stephen G. Sharp, CSA & Morgan's Raiders
    John M. Prewitt
  • Historic Preservation in the Region
    Karl Lietzenmayer, et al.
  • Jimmy Lee Eldred, Piano Teacher 60 Years
    Karl Lietzenmayer
  • Old Ky Watering Places
    James C. Kelly, editor
  • Grant County Mineral Wells
    James C. Kelly, editor
  • The Formation of Robertson County
    Anjanette Gifford

Volume VIII, No. 1 (Autumn/Winter 2000)

  • Wilhelm Hildenbrand's Suspension Bridge Reconstruction (1895)
    Joseph Gastright
  • Ellis Crawford Legacy & Behringer-Crawford Museum
    Lorna P. Harrell
  • Who Killed Wm. Goebel?
    Norman L. Snider
  • Central Ky's Camp Nelson: Its Role in the Civil War
    W. Stephen McBride, PhD
  • The Kroger Story & Barnie's Newport Years
    George Laycock
  • Kenton County Public Library - 100 years
    Robin Cox & Staff
  • Could Your Ancestors Have Married in Gretna Green?
    Barbara Keyser Garguilo

Volume VII, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 2000)

  • Picture History of IOOF Hall, Covington
    Karl J. Lietzenmayer
  • The Russell Family Legacy in Maysville, Kentucky
    Marion Russell, Mary Anderson & Donald Buckley, AICP
  • Regional Historic Structures: Successes, Failures
    Karl J. Lietzenmayer
  • Banking In Kentucky (1802-1835)
    Lisa V. Barrett
  • My Life with Captain Reynolds on the Showboat Majestic
    Garnett Neal Reynolds
  • The Covington Turners
    James T. Bradley
  • The Willis Family
  • History of the Alphabet

VOLUME VII, NUMBER 1 (Autumn/Winter 1999)

  • Showboats
    Carl R. Bogardus
  • Revolutionary War Battle (Bird's Attack on Ruddell's Station
    H. Don Lee
  • Caleb Powers, His Life & Association with William Goebel
    W. Sherman Oxendine
  • Dayton, KY - A Brief History of its 150 Years
    Charles R. Tharp
  • Navigation Lights on the Ohio River
    Carl R. Bogardus

VOLUME VI, NUMBER 2 (Spring/Summer 1999)

  • Ft. Thomas Military Reservation
    Betty M. Daniels
  • St. Elizabeth Hospital History
    Patricia McMillen
  • Carneal House & The Underground RR
    Ted. H. H. Harris
  • Grandma's House, A Personal History
    Deborah Nibert
  • The Coney Island Steamers
    Carl Bogardus
  • The Montagues
    Nancy Montague Grall

VOLUME VI, NUMBER 1 (Fall/Winter 1998)

  • Old Latonia Race Track (1883-1939)
    James Claypool
  • James Tandy Ellis (1868-1942) The Sage of Ghent
    Willard R. Jillson
  • The "Chronic Want" of Cincinnati - A Southern Railroad
    Paul Tenkotte
  • Mayoral Power & Governmental Evolution in Covington, Ky
    J. T. Spence
  • Brief Look at Pendleton County, Kentucky
    Mildred Bel
  • Newport Barracks [from the new book]
    Joseph L. Donnelly
  • Carrollton's Glauber Shoe Store - A Centennary Company
    George Harper
  • The Piatts - Early Boone County Family
    Robt. Rankin/Margaret Blake

*Volume V, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1998)

  • John Roberts Coppin - The Family & The Company
    Karl J. Lietzenmayer
  • Fleming County's Most Horrible Railroad Accident - 1907
    Wade Cooper
  • John Marshall & The Western County - Early Days
    Irwin S. Rhodes
  • Bracken County & The Great Slave Escape of 1848
    John Leming, Jr.
  • Driftin 'n' Dreamin - The Story of Haven Gillespie
    William First
  • Collision of The United States & The America
    Carl Bogardus

*Volume V, Number 1 (Fall/Winter 1997)

  • Stewart Iron Works - A Kentucky Centennary Company
    Karl J. Lietzenmayer
  • The Dinsmore Homestead, Boone County Treasure
    Gail Chastang
  • Preston Plantation - A Slave-holding Station on the Underground RailRoad
    Paul & Pam Venard
  • Life of Governor Charles Scott of Kentucky
    Carl Bogardus

*Volume IV, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1997)

  • Mason County Museum
    Jean Calvert & Sue Ellen Grannis
  • Kenton Hills Pottery
    Nick Nicholson
  • Boone County's Carleton Dist. - Rabbit Hash, Ky.
    Caitlyn & Callie Clare
  • Orangeburg, Mason County, Ky.
    Edith P. Ryan
  • Southgate School, Newport, Ky
    Ted H. H. Harris
  • Bracken County Bicentennial History
    John Leming, Jr.

*Volume IV, Number 1 (Autumn/Winter 1996)

  • History of Agriculture in Bracken County
    Steve Appleman
  • History of Education in Augusta, Kentucky
    Steve Appleman
  • The Old Augusta Jail
    Jack Weiss
  • A Walk Through the Past of Augusta, Ky.
    (from) Augusta Tourism
  • General William Orlando Butler (1791-1880)
    Mary Ann Gentry
  • Lewis Vallandingham - 15 Year old Soldier (1761-1845)
    Thomas S. Fiske
  • From St. Nicholas to Santa Claus
    Carl Bogardus
  • Kentucky's First Woman Dentist
    Carl Bogardus
  • Covington's Bavarian Brewery & Cincinnati Brewing Industry
    Leah Koniki

*Volume III, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1996)

  • Streetcars in N. Kentucky
    Earl Clark, Jr.
  • N. Ky. Base Ball: The Early Years
    Bill Schneider
  • Musee' de Venoge: History Shared Across the Ohio River
    Thomas R. Weaver
  • Daniel Henry Holmes (1816-1898)
    Betty Nordheim
  • An International Edge: The Kelley-Koett Xray Company
    John Boh
  • Bracken County & The Brooksville Railroad Co.
    John Leming, Jr.
  • Parks For the People, II
    Dr. Joseph Gastright


*Volume III, Number 1 (Autumn/Winter 1995)

  • Newport Kentucky (1795-1995)
    Thomas Purvis
  • Ben Lucien Burman (1895-1984)
    Dr. C. Harvey Gardiner
  • Germantown - Best Little Town in Two Counties
    John Henderson & Karen Hinson
  • Congressman Asa P. Grover - Man of Contradictions
    Thomas S. Fiske
  • Prehistory of N. Ky. (Behringer/Crawford Museum)
    June Krantz
  • More Sam Hill Stories of J. U. Lloyd
    Michael Flannery, ed.

*Volume II, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1995)

  • A History of Carroll County, Kentucky
    Mary Ann Gentry
  • The Judge with A Full House: William Samuel Pryor
    Thomas S. Fiske
  • More Sam Hill Stories of J. U. Lloyd
    Michael Flannery, ed.
  • A Look at Sears Houses in N. Ky.
    Leah Koniki
  • Life & Death of Major Abram G. Wileman (Pendleton Hero)
    Eric Nagle
  • William Arnold, First Sheriff of Grant County, Wmstown Founder
    Virgil Chandler, Jr.
  • Parks for the People - Park Movement in N. Ky.
    Dr. Joseph Gastright

*Volume II, Number 1 (Autumn/Winter 1994)

  • Northern Ky Had Covered Bridges Too! KCBA
    Walter Laughlin
  • KKK Murder in Owen County!
    Thomas S. Fiske
  • More Sam Hill Stories of J.U. Lloyd
    Michael Flannery, ed.
  • James T. Earle, The Last Mayor of Latonia
    Karl J. Lietzenmayer
  • The Grave of a Forgotten Soldier (Pendleton County)
    Herman R. Seibert, Jr.

*Volume I, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1994)

  • A Look at Kentucky's Smallest County: Gallatin
    Carl Bogardus & Gypsy Gray
  • B. H. F. Hellebusch(1825-1885)
    Julia M. Hellebusch
  • Sam Hill Stories of John Uri Lloyd
    Michael Flannery, ed.
  • Whatever Happened to James "Pigmeat" Jarrett?
    Carolyn Clark
  • The Kentucky Orphan Brigade & Men of Grant County
    John Leming, Jr.
  • African-American Elkdom & B. F. Howard of Covington
    Theo. H. Harris
  • A Kid Pleaser Fair & Square - Sekatary Hawkins
    Judy Findson

*Volume I, Number 1 (Autumn/Winter 1993)

  • Riverside Renaissance: Covington's Historic Riverside District
    Michelle Stamm
  • Pioneer Aviation in Grant County
    John Leming, Jr.
  • Professor Edward Strubel: Composer, Church Musician
    Karl J. Lietzenmayer
  • Simon Kenton: A Brief History
    Lawrence Borne

 

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Covington, KY 41012

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Heritage Magazine Board

Karl Lietzenmayer
Editor

Editorial Board:
Sheryn Labate
Dr. J.T. Spence
Dr. Eric Jackson


Staff Positions:
James Kelly, Production Editor
Dr. Andrea Watkins, NKU Student Intern Director
Elaine Kuhn, "In the Region" editor