Old Covington Kentucky Personal Recollections Of An Octogenarian Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Old Covington, Kentucky: Personal Recollections of an Octogenarian 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 Montgomer y 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. As children on our way to school we timidly gauged ourtime in passing the gates to guard against the rush of cattle and hogs being driven to slaughter. Down the old Lexington Pike farmers brought their produce to market. The hills along the pike were covered with forest trees and many grape - vine swings were enjoyed along the creek that mean dered along the northside now occupied by truck farmers. On the south side ran Willow Run. Its pretty little cascades trickling down to the valley where, beside a great flat rock under an immense sycamore tree, there dwelt alone in his little cabin one of whom we whispered as the hermit. One day a hunter came up into our little settlement, startling us by the announcement that he had found the old man dead, sitting in his chair, his faithful dog beside him. 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.