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Plaque #1
(APA logo)
the American Planning Association,
through Great Places in America,
designates
Historical Licking Riverside
Neighborhood
Covington, Kentucky
as a Great Neighborhood
2013
Plaque #2
Seven historic characters…
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Simon Kenton
April 13, 1755 - April 29, 1836
Simon Kenton, for whom Kenton
County is named, stands with
Daniel Boone and George Rogers
Clark as a leading figure in the
opening of the West. Kenton entered
Kentucky in 1771 as a longhunter and…
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(DAR emblem)
Erected to the memory of
Simon Kenton
May 15, 1755 - April 1836
Pioneer and Patriot
by Elizabeth Kenton Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HPO_atlas_Covington-IL.html
Site of the First Permanent Seat of Justice in Pike County
This section, settled in 1820, by Ebenezer Franklin, Daniel Shinn and the four Ross brothers, was known as Ross Settlement until 1823 when it was named Atlas. Pursuant to an act passed …
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Mary Greene was born the daughter of a country storekeeper. When she
married Captain Gordon C. Greene, she left the land to make her life and
raise her family on the rivers of America. Captain Mary one of the few
women to become a licensed boat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HER_the-point_Covington-KY.html
Side A
The Point
Confluence of Ohio and Licking
Rivers. Christopher Gist, Agent
of the Ohio Company, was first
white man known to have set foot
on Point, 1751. The Lieutenant of
Kentucky Co., Va., Col. John Bowman,
led expedition from here again…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HDV_john-james-audubon_Covington-KY.html
"Nature must be seen first alive, and well studied,
before attempts are made at representing her."
Best known as a painter of birds and most
notably for his series called the Birds
of America. Audubon came to the northern
Kentucky area…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HC7_daniel-carter-beard_Covington-KY.html
"He'll live wherever boyhood pitches tent beside a stream and fire is made by friction and coffee needs no cream."
Edgar A. Guest
Daniel Carter Beard spent much of his youth in the
house behind this statue. He played in the nearby woods
and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HAL_carneal-house_Covington-KY.html
Built by Thomas Carneal, a founder
of Covington, on land purchased
in 1814 from Thomas Kennedy.
First brick house in the city.
Georgian in concept, style reveals
the influence of the great Italian
architect Andrea Palladio. In 1825
Lafayette visit…
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Side A
St. John the Evangelist Church
In 1848- 49 German- Catholics of
Mother of God Church, Lewisburg,
founded Stes. Peter and Paul
School. In 1854, St. John Parish
was created. Fr. Wm. Robbers
(pastor 1879- 1903) was nationally
prominent figure …