Forks of the Licking
Transcribed by Nancy Bray
Thanks Nancy!
The following pictures and captions are from the excellent
book, Forks of the Licking published by the Falmouth Outlook.
Full credit and my deepest gratitude goes out to Debbie Dennie, Editor, and the
Staff of the Outlook for allowing me to use items from this publication!
Please contact the Falmouth Outlook about
purchasing this wonderful book as the pictures on this page are not as they
appear in the book.
This is an old photo of the Blacksmith Shop at Catawba - submitted by Mildred Tucker
This is an old photo of the Catawba Church
- submitted by Mildred Tucker
This is a sketch of John Shivley home, about 1850. John Shivley and Hannah Boyd were married in Pendleton County in 1820. By 1839, they had purchased farm land from Rev. Christian Tomlin, located on the old Williamstown-Callensville Road (now 1054). They reared a family of six children. After marriage, a number of the children moved away. Two married into the local families of Ammerman and Race. The farm was sold in the late 1800s to neighbors. Since then, it has been owned by various other family members. Today, the farm is once again owned by Shivleys'. Ink sketch by artist, Linda Thamen.
Pictured are Ed York, left, and William Blasingame and hounds. Blasingame was the jailer of Pendleton County in the 1930s. Photo submitted by Pat Colvin.
In 1922, Ed Spaulding and Ida Bell Smith
Spaulding ran an old store. They lived around the Falmouth and Bethel area
all their married life. Photo submitted by Zola Moore.
This picture is of Mrs. W. T. Browning and members of her family in the yard of her home in Browningsville. Her farm was in both Bracken and Pendleton Counties, and the house was just over the county line in Bracken County. It was on Little Willow Creek. The picture was taken about 1895 following the death of William T. (Dutch) Browning. The picture could have been taken by Daniel P Browning, who was a photographer in Browningsville. Those appearing in the picture are from left to right: Nannie G. Browning, our great aunt, who was a well known professional seamstress and milliner. She had a shop in Browningsville and later in Brooksville. Abbie or Carrie Holton, cousins of the Browning family. Robert Edwin (Ed) Browning, our great uncle, who was a blacksmith and son of Mrs. W. T. Browning. Mrs. Matilda Jane Anderson Browning (Mrs W. T. Browning), our great grandmother. She was the daughter of James N. and Frederica A. Holton Anderson. Claude Browning, a grandson of Mrs. W. T. Browning. Federica M. (Freddie Browning, our mother, who was born in 1890 and was Mrs W. T. Browning's granddaughter. Elizabeth F. (Bet) Browning, our great aunt, who raised our mother after her mother died in 1891. Great Aunt Bet was a daughter of Mrs. W. T. Browning. W. T. Browning and Matilda Browning were among the founders of the Browningsville Christian Church in 1860. The church later became the Oakland Christian Church in Pendleton County. The W. T. Browning farm in Brooksville is now owned by Mrs. Morse Bettison, a gret granddaughter. Browningsville should not be confused with Browning's Corner. The picture submitted by W. T. and Matilda Browning's great granddaughters-Mary Sue Edwards, Franklin, Ohio and Ann Edwards Bettison (Mrs. Morse Bettison) Muncie, Indiana.
This old photo shows the stand at the Falmouth
Fairgrounds. Photo submitted by Clarence Wilson.
Here we have the old ferry that carried people
across the Licking River. Jess Fields and Bill True operated the ferry.
The ferry was used after the old covered bridge burned going over into
Shoemakertown. In the background you can see the smoke stack on the city's
electric plant. The electric plant was coal fired and Falmouth made it's
own electricity. Photo submitted by Charles Lemmon.
This is the little iron bridge that was on East Shelby Street in Falmouth in the early years. Photo submitted by Ella Bishop.
This is an early photo of the Falmouth Baptist Church when it was located on the corner of Fourth and Chapel Street in 1907.
This is a family portrait of Wm. Viers family, who lived in their homestead on Madison Avenue in Butler, somewhere around 1910. Photo submitted by Terry England.
In 1910, this photo was taken of the Butler Christian Church , at Butler. Photo submitted by Terry England.
This photo gives a full view of the Daisy Childers home on Shelby Street in Falmouth. At the bottom of the photo the family had printed "My Old Kentucky Home." Photo courtesy of Russ Conrad.
This picture was taken in the early 1900's on the corner of Main and Shelby Streets in Falmouth where Moreland Drugs is located now. On the second floor of this building was the Pendleton Opera House. Photo submitted by Dorothy Daugherty.
R. W. Lemmon owned and operated this buggy factory that set to the right of Shoemaker Bridge in Falmouth on the Falmouth side. They made the buggies here. Rev. John W. Lemmon in front, left of picture father of R. W. Lemmon, behind him is his son, Claude Lemmon. In the background on the left side is R. W. Lemmon. The Licking River is in the background. Picture was taken before 1900. Mr. Charles R. Lemmon operates a jewelry store and is the great-grandson of John Lemmon. Photo submitted by Charles Lemmon.