Newport, Kentucky Newport, Kentucky Location in Campbell County and the state of Kentucky.
Location in Campbell County and the state of Kentucky.
The Campbell County Courthouse in Newport, Kentucky Newport is a home rule-class town/city at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers in Campbell County, Kentucky, in the United States.
Historically, it was one of four county seats of Campbell County. Newport is part of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area, which includes over 2 million inhabitants.
See also: Timeline of Newport, Kentucky from George Muse, who received it as a grant.[why?] Taylor's brother, Hubbard Taylor, had been mapping the territory twenty years before . It was not titled for its position on the river but for Christopher Newport, the commander of the first ship to reach Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Newport was established as a town on December 14, 1795, and incorporated as a town/city on February 24, 1834. In 1803, the Ft.
Washington military post was moved from Cincinnati to turn into the Newport Barracks.
A bridge first connected Newport to Covington in 1853, and the first bridge spanning the Ohio River to Cincinnati, the John A.
Newport experienced large German immigration in the 1880-90s. By 1900, Newport was the third biggest city in Kentucky, after Covington and Louisville, although Newport and Covington were rightly considered satellites of Cincinnati. Newport's worst natural disaster occurred in 1937, when a flood veiled a great part of the city.
A flood wall was instead of in 1948, and remains a momentous part of Newport's landscape. Newport once had the reputation of "Sin City" due to its upscale gambling casinos on Monmouth street. Monmouth also had many men's stores, nice restaurants, and ice cream parlors. Investigations for racketeering pushed out the casinos, which were replaced by peep shows and adult strip clubs. Many of the old businesses disappeared when parking became difficult on Monmouth Street and the commercial precinct opened on the hill of south Newport. In the 1980s and 1990s, Newport made plans to precarious its riverfront and core to focus primarily on "family friendly" tourism, freshwater the "Sin City" tourism of the past.
In May 1999 the $40-million Newport Aquarium opened, and the historic Posey Flats apartements were leveled in favor of the Newport on the Levee entertainment complex, which opened the following year.
Today, Newport is becoming the entertainment improve of the fast-growing Northern Kentucky region while its neighboring cities--Bellevue and Covington turn into the company centers. Newport is a governmental center of county of Campbell County, and was previously a governmental center of county from 1797 until 1823, and again from 1824 until 1840. In the 19th century, the overwhelming majority of the populace lived in Newport and the encircling cities.
Many people did not like traveling south to Alexandria to conduct county business, as southern Campbell County was primarily undeveloped.
In 1883, Newport successfully lobbied the state council for an exception to state law, which both required that a governmental center of county be positioned in the center of the county, and that certain county company only be conducted at the county seat.
Frankfort passed a special law, creating the Newport Court House District, and inside that district, the Newport Courthouse Commission which functioned as a special taxing district, so that an additional courthouse could be built, and company could take place in Newport, in addition to Alexandria.
In 2009, a court ruled that Alexandria is the only county seat, and Newport is not a county seat. On November 24, 2010, the Kentucky Court of Appeals disagreed, and granted Newport equal status as a county seat. On August 25, 2011, the Supreme Court of Kentucky denied review of the appellate decision. Newport is positioned at 39 5 19 N 84 29 25 W (39.088661, 84.490206). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), of which 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) (8.42%) is water.
Newport is positioned inside the Bluegrass region found in the Upland South of the United States of America.
Newport is also generally referred to as being positioned in the Midwest.
Either description of Upland South or Midwest is acceptable, as Newport is positioned at the boundary between those regions.
Newport is positioned inside a transition zone and is proximal to the extreme northern limit of the humid subtropical climate of the Southeastern United States.
East Row Historic District, Newport, Kentucky Newport's waterfront Entrance to Newport Aquarium Newport Aquarium Newport on the Levee, an entertainment and shopping complex established by Joshua Treadway of Main Moon Productions and Wallks International Corpus Christi Church, Newport now converted into low-costing housing.
East Row Historic District, the second-largest National Register Historic District in Kentucky Newport Southbank Bridge Immaculata Academy, Newport, Ky.
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Newport Stephens Church, 9th & Saratoga Sts., Newport George Wiedemann Brewing Company, Kentucky's biggest brewery complex, now torn down for urban renewal, for many years Wiedemann beer was synonymous with Newport Newport Public Schools are part of the Newport Independent Schools School District.
The Newport Business Association is a trade association focusing on collaboration between small-town companies.
Newport Independent Schools Newport Barracks Newport Central Catholic High School "Newport, Kentucky".
Wicked Newport.
"The Hidden Mob History of Newport, Kentucky".
Newport Fire/EMS History Timeline City of Newport.
"The Return of Newport's Erection".
Alexandria and Newport Courthouses, Campbell County Historian Jim Reis Judge: Alexandria the only county seat, The Kentucky Enquirer, 2009-05-12.
Campbell County Fiscal Court Kentucky Court of Appeals.
SUPREME COURT OF KENTUCKY AUGUST 25, 2011 MINUTES Supreme Court of Kentucky.
"Newport Independent School District".
Newport Independent School District.
In Honor of the World Peace Bell and the City of Newport, Kentucky Newport, Kentucky travel guide from Wikivoyage Historical Images and Texts of Newport History of Newport "Newport, a town/city in Campbell co., Ky.".
Municipalities and communities of Campbell County, Kentucky, United States
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