Highland Heights
Located along U.S. 27 at the juncture of I-471 and I-275,
Highland Heights is a suburban city that in an 1883 atlas showed little in the
area but farms.
In 1917 a group called the Highlands Real Estate and Development Company built a bungalow at Renshaw Road and Main Avenue as a model home and began selling lots. The encourage buyers, developers extended the street car line out U.S. 27 from Ft. Thomas and down Main Street to where Highland Heights Elementary School stands. This was prior to Main Avenue being divided by the construction of I-275.
Dale Elementary#1-was a one room frame building on Crowell Avenue just outside the Ft. Thomas city limits. It burned in the 1920s.
Dale Elementary School 1923-1924 Grades 1-8
Dale Elementary #2-was built in 1926 and set a few feet behind the original building. It was a two story frame with classrooms on both floors. It closed in 1931. The third school was built on Main and Renshaw Avenue in Highland Heights in 1931, a two story brick building and was renamed in 1960 to Highland Heights Elementary.
Dale Elementary School 1930-1931 Grades 1-2
Dale Elementary School 1930-1931 Grades 3-4
Dale
Elementary School 1930-1931 Grades 5-8
Dale Elementary #3 was built on Main and Renshaw
Avenue in 1931, a two story brick building and was renamed in 1960 to Highland
Heights Elementary.
In June 1927 Highland Heights was incorporated
by order of Campbell County Circuit Court Judge A M Caldwell. Appointed as
trustees were:
Lee Reekers
Herman Runge
O S Shoemaker
Peter Willis
Andrew Zint
Other officials included were:
Charles La Mott-police judge
Herman Bahlmann-marshal
Earl Bonneville-assessor
In the 1930s a volunteer fire department was
started. In 1968 Northern Kentucky State College was built in Highland
Heights. Now called Northern Kentucky University, it has 14,000 students
enrolled. In 1980 the first section of I-471 from Alexandria Pike to I-275
was opened. In 1981 the entire length to Cincinnati opened. Current
population is 4300 people.