====== Government in 1960s Florence ======
The Florence Town Hall was a historic building that held the office of the Mayor and was also used as a school during the 1800s. It even had a school bell in the front yard.
In 1961, Carroll M. "Hop" Ewing was elected mayor of Florence. He was re-elected in 1969 and you can see the election results for that year [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/24720/0|here]]. You can read about Mayor Ewing's 1969 re-election campaign [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/24228/0|here]]. He remained in office until 1981 and his daughter, Diane Whalen, is Florence's current mayor. You can read about Hop Ewing in newspaper articles [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/history/search/results?qu=hop+ewing&qf=-BCPL_TYPE%09Record+Type%09Oral+history%09Oral+history&lm=LHDC&isd=true
|here]].
William Fitzgerald was Mayor of Florence during the 1950s. You can see his signature in the photograph. Mr. Fitzgerald not only was mayor, but he helped create [[Big Bone Lick State Park]] and was President of the Kentucky Historical Society. He took most of the photographs you see of Florence from the 1950s and 1960s.
* [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/24600/0|Read here]] for a January 1963 article about a proposed new city hall.
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