Old Covington, Kentucky

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Excerpt from Old Covington, Kentucky: Personal Recollections of an Octogenarian "Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me." In the mad and merry rush of the present age it may be that to a few remaining kindred souls these reminiscences of mine may be of interest. Sitting among some treasured relics of the past, memories both sad and sweet return to me. They carry me back to the time when but a little child I was held in my father's arms to witness the marriage ceremony of a young lady who had made much of me, and record my first childish grief on being told that she must go away from me. A few years later that tender father's hand would lead me to where I learned to read - the old "White Mansion" in Covington where the Reverend Doctor William Orr then conducted a school. The grounds included the space between Fifth and Sixth Streets and between Russell and Montgomery Streets. The latter was named for the Reverend Father Montgomery, pastor of the little Catholic Church on Fifth Street, he also erected the White Mansion. A little west was the old Craig Street burying ground which was later removed to make room for the railroad that now spreads its tracks over the space where the "rude forefathers of the hamlet" slept. Going south on Craig Street it joined the Bank Lick Road at the Lexington Pike near which was the Drover's Inn conducted by Mr. Ashbrook. The cattle pens occupied the space now used by railroad tracks and the gatekeeper's outlook. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.