florence_timeline
Florence Timeline
1788 - Filson overland route from Lexington to Cincinnati
1790 - keep
road in good repair from Kennedy's
ferry to Georgetown
1795 - road from Kennedy's Ferry to Dry Ridge opened as a wagon road.
1816 – “Squirrel Hollow School,” established
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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
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
lodge hall on Main Street. The first floor was leased to various commercial entities over the years.
1872 – Greenwood Lake (Erlanger) got a
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.
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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
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.
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