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The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [3] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [4]
Water Street Historic District: September 24, 1975 : River Side Drive east to Frankfort Street and west to Ferry Street: Augusta: 23: James Weldon House: James Weldon House: May 22, 1984 : 417 Railroad St.
Augusta is located in northeastern Kentucky. Kentucky Route 8 (Fifth Street) is the main road through the city. Route 8 leads northwest 42 miles (68 km) to downtown Cincinnati and southeast 19 miles (31 km) to Maysville. The Augusta Ferry crosses the Ohio River into Lewis Township, Brown County, Ohio, near Higginsport.
The Water Street Historic District is a historic district in Augusta, Kentucky, on the National Register of Historic Places.Overlooking the Ohio River, the district includes River Side Drive east to Frankfort Street and west to Ferry Street.
The county government moved from Augusta to Woodward's Crossing (now Brooksville) in 1833. Bracken was the birthplace of John Gregg Fee, founder of Berea College and Kentucky's most noted abolitionist. He was a graduate of Augusta College and Lane Theological Seminary. In 1822 Augusta College was founded as the first Methodist college in the world.
West Hall, located on the west side of Bracken Street, is a simpler two-story brick building with a side gable roof and five-bay facade. Both were built in the 1820s to house students at the recently established Augusta College, one of the first Methodist higher education establishments in the United States. The school was closed in 1849. [2]
The company was the offspring of Lubin's film equipment and film distribution and production business, which began in 1896. Siegmund Lubin, a Jewish immigrant from Poland , was originally an optical and photography expert in Philadelphia but became intrigued with Thomas Edison's motion picture camera and saw the potential in selling similar ...
Kentucky Truck Plant is an automobile manufacturing plant owned by Ford Motor Company in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] Opened in 1969, [1] the 4,626,490-square-foot (429,815 m 2) plant on 500 acres (2.0 km 2) currently employs 8,500 people total.