====== Florence Timeline ======
  * 1788 - Filson overland route from Lexington to Cincinnati
  * [[1790]] - keep [[roads|road]] in good repair from Kennedy's [[ferries|ferry]] to Georgetown
  * [[1795]] - road from Kennedy's Ferry to Dry Ridge opened as a wagon road.
  * [[1816]] – "Squirrel Hollow School," established
  * [[1816]] to [[1823]] - called Crossroads
  * [[1817]] – [[Abner Gaines]] stage coach from Cincinnati to Lexington.
  * [[1821]] - Thomas Madden is granted a tavern license Maddentown
  * [[1826]] - Madden left named Connersville for the [[Conner family]] who owned large amount of land
  * [[1830]] – Florence was incorporated by an act of the state legislature with a population of 63.  [[Pitman Cloudas]] was first chairman of the Town's Board of Trustees and the first postmaster.
  * [[1834]] – Woolen and Carding factory at end of Banklick St.
  * [[1836]] – The Covington-Lexington Turnpike was completed and Florence became the first stagecoach stop south of Covington.  
  * [[1851]] – Town Hall, also used as a school, was erected on a site on Main Street (the site is now occupied by an attorney's office).
  * [[1855]] – The first agricultural fair in the county was held in Florence. Closed [[1881]] on J. Barton land near present day Kentaboo road.
  * [[1862]] – An advance guard of the Confederate Army under the command of Brig. Gen. Henry Heath, whose main force had camped at Corinth and [[skirmish at snow's pond|Snow's Pond]] near [[Walton]], encountered Union pickets in the area around the Christian Church.  One man was killed, 18 wounded and the Yankees were routed by veteran Confederate troops who were part of a unit known as "Morgan's Raiders."
  * [[1869]] – International Order of Odd Fellows built a [[lodges|lodge]] hall on Main Street.  The first floor was leased to various commercial entities over the years.
  * [[1872]] – Greenwood Lake (Erlanger) got a [[railroads|railroad]] station and took some of the traffic from Florence.
  * [[1896]] – Northern Agricultural Fair Association was organized to hold a four-day fair every fall in Florence.  The area bounded by U.S. 42, U.S. 25, Gibbons Street and Fair Street was known as the old Fairgrounds.  
  * 1900 – [[John Uri Lloyd]] immortalizes Florence with his best selling novel, //[[Stringtown on the Pike]]//.
  * 1907 – John Meeks, recently fired from his position of Town Marshal, shot and killed his replacement, James Albert Clutterbuck, during an altercation on Main Street. 
  * 1917 – Electricity was installed.
  * 1926 – Gas lines were constructed.
  * 1931 – A three-story brick building was erected on Center Street for Florence [[schools|School]].
  * 1933 – Water lines were constructed.
  * 1934 – Albert Hue began organizing a volunteer fire department.  He paid $75 for the city's first fire truck, a 1913 Ahrens-Fox pumper.
  * 1941 – "Bypass" was built to reroute traffic off Main Street.
  * 1959 – Thoroughbreds began racing at Latonia Race Track, which became Turfway Park in 1985.
  * 1963 – I-75 was completed between Cincinnati and Knoxville.