Lost Northern Kentucky by Robert Schrage

Author:Robert Schrage
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2018-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

Speers Memorial Hospital, Dayton, Kentucky. Kenton County Public Library.

FORT THOMAS MILITARY RESERVATION

The military barracks of Newport were covered heavily by water in the great floods of 1884 and 1887. As a result, it was decided to move the barracks to a new reservation in Fort Thomas that offered higher grounds, fresh water, train transportation for materials and accessibility by streetcar to the urban core of Cincinnati, Newport and Covington. The Kentucky General Assembly ceded that land to the federal government for the military reservation, which was dedicated on June 29, 1890. Congress appropriated $3.5 million for construction, and it began quickly. First named Fort Crook, the establishment was later renamed by Army Chief of Staff General Phillip Sheridan to honor General George Henry Thomas. Thomas was known as the “Rock of Chickamauga.” The Battle of Chickamauga and Thomas’s defeat of Confederate general John Bell Hood in 1864 was a decisive battle in the Civil War.

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