Dale School
Campbell County, Kentucky
By: Wm R (Rus) Stevens 21 July 1994
From The Albert Stegman Papers
The "DALE SCHOOL" was built on Grant Street, near Alexandria Pike; on property owned by The Fort Thomas Land Company. On Ft. Thomas City maps today, you will find a short section of road named "Dale Avenue" running off of Sheridan Avenue. But in the early days when the Highlands was being Incorporated, with the population starting to grow, the entire section of the community in the southern part of town, west of Alexandria Pike, beginning at the John D. Locke home and James Metcalfe home (Site of the Woodfill School today), and extending to present Crowell Avenue, was known as "DALE".
One of the homes on Grant Street, used as a "Mail Drop" by Mr. Gosney's six horse coach from Newport, and being closer to Newport, than they were to Covert Run Turnpike, there was little communication between the North and South ends of the Highlands until we had the Army Post, the Streetcars and the Midway.
It appears that the Dale Post Office served this area and what is now Highland Heights.