Click here to hear the
Delta Queen whistle

 

Welcome to Campbell County Kentucky!  
 

My name is Shirlene Jensen and I am the host of the Campbell County KYGenWeb site.  Our co-host Herman "Buck" Seibert, is a Campbell County native and long time researcher. Buck has contributed many items to this site over the years and has been actively researching and preserving data from our old cemeteries. Feel free to contact him if you need information. We moved this site to the US GenWeb site so that all may still access information for free.
                                 
We are proud to be participants in the USGenWeb and KYGenWeb projects.  A great group of volunteers who are working together to provide a way for you to trace your ancestors.  The Kentucky State Coordinator is Jeffrey Kemp.  If you wish to volunteer please contact him.

Information on this site comes from research done by several Campbell County Historians.  To learn more about these valuable researchers, please see our Special Tribute Page. 

 

African-American Records
Bible Records
    Bridges  
Campbell County History
C
emeteries
Census Records
Churches
Cities and Towns

City Directories
Crimes

Dairies
Deeds and Court Records

Divorces
Early Kentucky
Families
Fires
Germans
Immigration

 Land Grants & Surveys
Libraries
Marriages
Military
Miscellaneous  
Naturalization Records
Neighboring Counties
Newspaper Articles
Obituaries
Oral History and Veterans Project
Orphans
Our Rich History
Physicians and Early Medicine
Pieces of the Past
Pioneers
Politicians
Postcards from the Past
Professional Researchers
Research Links
Schools
Steamboats and Ferries
Surnames
Tax Lists
Unknown Photos
Vital Records
What's New!
Who's Who in Campbell Co
Wills

This Website has also posted information on the Unbound Libraries site at:

http://kyunbound.lib.overdrive.com/
 

FYI: Free Find does not always soundex, so you may have to try different spellings of your family name.  And because Free Find is free, it does not index all the pages. 


powered by FreeFind


Visit Campbell County's Wonderful Historical & Genealogical Society

The Campbell County Historical & Genealogical Society is at 8352 East Main Street in Alexandria.
 

Be a part of history and make your story heard and recorded for posterity.

Fill out the Covid-19 Questionnaire!

****************

While there, please consider becoming a member. For only $12.00 per year you will receive a newsletter filled with information. The A Day in Campbell County book as well as other books are available at the office or online at their website.


Campbell County was founded December 17, 1794, two years after the creation of the Commonwealth of Kentucky becoming the state's 19th county. Campbell County was carved out of Scott, Harrison and Mason counties.  The original county included all of present day Boone, Kenton, Pendleton, and most of Grant and Bracken counties.  It is part of the Outer Bluegrass region and the elevation in the county ranges from 455 to 920 feet above sea level.

Campbell County is named in honor of John Campbell an Irish immigrant who was a soldier, explorer, statesman and one of the drafters of the first Kentucky Constitution. The first settler of the area was in Wilder by David Leitch from Scotland and his wife Keturah Moss. Newport was founded by James Taylor from Virginia and named by his brother Hubbard after Christopher Newport, a famous (at least to them) sailing captain.  Newport was named the county seat in 1796. In 1840 when Kenton County was carved from Campbell County, Alexandria was chosen as the geographic center of the new Campbell County.  Since the greater amount of business was still done in Newport, the county determined to accept two county seats, Alexandria and Newport.  Campbell and Kenton Counties are the only counties in the state that boast two seats of government.

In 2010 the county population was 90,336 in a land area of 151 square miles.


 USGenWeb Project     

Hosted by USGENWEB SITES

COPYRIGHT ©  2024 Shirlene L Jensen & Herman "Buck" Seibert

No part of this web site may be reproduced in any form without written
permission from it's coordinator, publisher, submitter or owner.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
 

This site was last updated October 2024