Identifier: collinshistoricav02coll (find matches)
Title: Collins' historical sketches of Kentucky : history of Kentucky
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870 Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889
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Publisher: Covington, KY : Published by Collins & Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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n, Republican, and Ohio RiverTraveler), city high school and 3 district public schools, 5 semi-naries (2 male and 3 female), several other private schools, gasworks, 2 wholesale and 7 retail-dry goods stores, 2 chug stores, 5tinware and stove stores, 2 hardware stores, 4 hotels, and a largenumber of other business houses, shops, and small factories—be-sides 2 steam flouring mills, 2 steam saw mills, 2 planing mills,2 very large and several small plow factories, 1 large cotton-spinning factory, 1 piano-forte factory, 1 chair factory, 1 foundry,1 very large and several small cigar factories, 2 carriage factories,1 brewery, 1 railroad car shop, and 1 pork-packing establishment;population in 1870, 4,705, of whom 681 were colored. Washing-ton, the ancient county seat (from 1788 to April 1, 1848), ohmiles S. W. of Maysville, on the turnpike to Lexington (see sketchin succeeding pages) ; has 3 churches (Baptist, Presbyterian, andMethodist) ; population in 1870, 240, of whom 106 whites, 131
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• MASON COUNTY. 547 colored. Mayslich, on same pike, 12 miles w. of s. of Maysville,was named after John May, of Virginia, the former proprietorof the land and of a famous lick near the place (hence its originalname Hays Lick) ; has 3 churches (Baptist, Reformed or Chris-tian, and Presbyterian), and a number of stores and shops ; incor-porated Feb. 1, 1837; population in 1870, 199, whites 128,colored 71. Dover, in importance the second town in the county,in the extreme N. w. corner, on the Ohio river 11 miles belowand N. w. of Maysville, and 1 mile from the Bracken countyline; is the largest tobacco prizing and shipping point, and has anumber of business houses; incorporated Jan. 20, 1836; popula-tion in 1870, 532, whites 465, colored 67. Minerva, 4 miles s. w.of Dover and 10 miles from Maysville ; incorporated Jan. 31,1844; population in 1870, 159. Germantown, 11 miles s. of w.of Maysville, lies partly in Mason and partly in Bracken county ;established in 1795 ; population in 1870,

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