Part 2
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| The Kackley Building, w. 2nd Street James T. Kackley was an early publisher of postcards, and a number of his images appear in these pages. He also sold bicycles and was a member of the Maysville Bicycle Club. A picture of him, on his bike, is here. More about Kackley is here. |
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| M. C. Russell Grocery Warehouses M. C. Russell was the father of J. Barbour Russell. Read more about J. Barbour here. Read more about M.C. here. |
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| Maysville Coal Company, Maysville “Leaders in Our Line” |
The Coke Plant | A more recent Coke Building from a Ron Bailey Facebook post |
Elmer Tincher |
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| Carnation Milk Products Plant, c. 1940's |
Carnation Milk Products Plant, c. 1950 |
Carnation, 1937 Flood from a Facebook post by David Campbell |
| It opened November 25, 1932. Kentucky Business ran a feature story about Carnation in 1950, here. | ||
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| Scenes at Carnation, December, 1950 | |
Story of Carnation, in Maysville, from 1935, is here.
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| The pictures in this set are all from inside the Carnation Dairy in 1946. | |||
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| Outside Carnation, 1946 from Facebook posts by John Henderson |
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Cargill Fire, January, 1998
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| Limestone Gas Company from a Facebook post by Mark Humphries |
Ready Mix, in Parade Decor, c. 1953 from a Facebook post by Mark Humphries |
Ohio Valley Millwork Likely in the 1937 flood |
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| Poyntz Bros. Wholesale Liquors | The Poyntz Distillery | Pogue and Poyntz Distilleries |
Rogers' Limestone Distillery |
| Details about Poyntz Brothers at this site. | Details about Rogers at this site. | ||
Sears, and A&P
J. C. Everett Co., 1978
from a Facebook post by David Tuel
Means & Shields
From a Facebook post by Loretta Olmstead
Graphics enhancement by David Tuel
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| The Princess Ring | Mr. Joe Trisler and Hayes Storer, in front of Trisler's Store at 617 E. Second Street from a Facebook post by John Henderson |
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| Maysville Milling and Feed Later, Alex Anderson's garage across from Ye Olde Dutch Inn. |
Kroger's, 1969 |
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| The Consolidated Drug Store in Maysville, c. 1930 | ||
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| Gillespie Products “Dr. J. E. Gillespie, Veterinarian, maker of E-Z-Give, for worms in livestock and poultry” |
McIlvain, Knox, & Diemer, Undertakers & Furniture |
Maymie Clift Shop Millinery and Antiques 6 West Third Street, Maysville |
| “The Union Coal Oil Company‘s refinery, at Maysville, Ky., was partially destroyed by fire this afternoon. Loss heavy in oil; insurance unknown.” New York Times, July 18, 1866 | “Claude Watkins, owner of the Whitehall Hotel, purchased the Central Hotel today and these two hotels will be consolidated, forming on of the largest hotels in Eastern Kentucky.” Louisville Courier Journal, April 23, 1923. |
| “Jan. 30 - Maysville was visited to-day by the most destructive fire in the history of the city. The Washington Opera House and the Mason County Library Building, full of rare books and historic relics, were burned, and a number of business houses were more or less damaged. The total loss will approximate $50,000.” from the New York Times of January 31, 1898 | “Maysville, Ky., - March 1 - Moses, Daulton & Brothers' livery stable burned to-day, consuming 50 buggies, and 13 horses, including one animal valued at $4,000. Total loss, $20,000. Insurance, $2000.” from the New York Times, March 2, 1887 |
| “The Louisville Courier learns that the hog cholera continues to prevail to an alarming extent along the Kentucky river, and the Ohio as far up as Portsmouth. At a distillery in Gallatin county no less than 400 hogs died in two pens in less than a week. At the Carrollton distillery the deaths among the hogs are fearfully on the increase, and the same fatality prevails in Mason county. The owners of these hogs in most cases “try” them up into what is termed grease, which is sold to the stearine candle makers at about nine cents per pound.” Frank Leslie's Weekly, May 2, 1857. | “Maysville, Ky., July 1, 1875. We the employees of the “Saw Mill,” respectfully challenge you, the employee of the “Planing Mill” for a match game of baseball. Game to be called Saturday at four o’clock p.m. at such a place as we agree upon. Signed, Chas. C. Dobyns, For Saw Mill.” Letter in the Maysville Republican, July 3, 1875 |
| In 1872, bad weather could mean you didn't eat. Details. | Then there was the guy that tried to start a nitroglycerin factory in Maysville. Details. Followed closely by this law from the Kentucky Legislature. |
| “Maysville has started a piano factory, and complains of a scarcity of dwelling houses for working men.” Courier-Journal, August 16, 1870 | |
| A nice piece on the Maysville Milling and Feed Co is here. (pdf) | “The Maysville Tribune says that there are thirty-two cigar manufacturers in that district and loud talk of more.” Courier-Journal, November 25, 1875 |
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| James H. Hall Company, Eagle Plow Works, 1876 |
James H. Hall & Co., c. 1900 on the east side of Lexington, between 2nd and 3rd. |
from the Thibodaux (Louisiana) Minerva, February 2, 1856
| Learn about a boiler explosion at Hall's, here. | |
| “A Maysville firm has just shipped 500 plows to Cuba via New Orleans.” Courier-Journal, June 25, 1870 | “Maysville plow factories shipped one thousand seven hundred plows to the South last week.” Courier-Journal, October 17, 1870 |
| “As many plows are said to be made in Maysville as in any city in the West. It has three plow factories, and they all do a very excessive business. That of James H. Hall & Co. is the largest wrought-iron plow factory in the United States.” Courier-Journal, February 20, 1871 | |
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| New Odd Fellows Hall, and de Nuzie's Bookstore, Maysville |
The Pogue Distillery, More here, and at this site. |
Russell Broom Factory More here. |
| The Pogue Distillery, recently re-opened, has a history if its business at its web site. | ||
“If you want the latest postcard photographic views of Maysville, go to 'De Nuzies' 229 Market Street.” Maysville’s Daily Bulletin, July 10, 1913
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| Livery Stable, Maysville on W. 3rd, next to the old jail |
Sapp's Motel |
E. P. Browning next to an example of the largest split-wheel pulleys
made by
Maysville's Ohio Valley Pulley Works, which opened in 1896.
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| Ohio Valley Pulley Works left, from a Facebook post by John Henderson |
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| A little more on the Ohio Valley Pulley Works, from 1910, is here. An item from 1935 is here. | |||
How Maysville's G. W. Geisel sold catchup.
