{"product_id":"lost-northern-kentucky-9781625859822","title":"Lost Northern Kentucky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorthern Kentucky serves as the gateway between the North and the South. Explore its many places long-forgotten with \u003ci\u003eLost Northern Kentucky\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of Kentucky's historic businesses, religious structures, homes and buildings were lost to time. Just after the \u003ci\u003eCivil War\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Henry Holmes purchased a large Victorian-Gothic house he named \u003ci\u003eHolmesdale\u003c\/i\u003e, better known as \u003ci\u003eHolmes Castle\u003c\/i\u003e. By the 1890s, the \u003ci\u003eLatonia Racetrack\u003c\/i\u003e had two hundred stables to accommodate horses and space for one hundred bookmakers. The \u003ci\u003eMotordrome\u003c\/i\u003e at the \u003ci\u003eLudlow Lagoon Amusement Park\u003c\/i\u003e had seating for eight thousand people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthors Robert Schrage and David Schroeder detail the fascinating history of Northern Kentucky's lost treasures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchrage, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Robert Schrage is very active in local history circles and has served on the boards of the Rabbit Hash Historical Society, Boone County Historic Preservation Board and the Behringer Crawford Board. In 2015, Schrage received the William Conrad Preservation Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement in preservation of local history. Previous works include: Legendary Locals of Covington (Arcadia); Eyewitness to History: A Personal Journal (winner of honorable mentions at the New York, Amsterdam and Florida Book Festivals--Merlot Group); Carl Kiger: The Man Beyond the Murder (Merlot Group); The Ohio River from Cincinnati to Louisville (Arcadia); Boone County: Then and Now (Arcadia); and Burlington (Arcadia).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDave Schroeder is president of the Kentucky Library Association and the Friends of the Kentucky Public Archives. He is also a longtime member of the Kentucky Archives and Records Commission. Schroeder has presented at local, state and national conferences on history and genealogy topics. He was awarded the James Nelson Advocacy Award in 2012 by the Kentucky Library Association, the 2014 Outstanding Public Library Service Award by the Kentucky Public Library Association and the Two-Headed Calf award in history from the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington, Kentucky in 2017. Schroeder is the executive director of the Kenton County Public Library and previously held the position of archivist for Thomas More College and the Diocese of Covington. He is author of Life Along the Ohio: A Sesquicentennial History of Ludlow, Kentucky (Little Miami Press, 2014) and coeditor of Gateway City: Covington, Kentucky, 1815-2015 (Clerisy Press, 2015).","brand":"History Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360979554578,"sku":"9781625859822","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_822d62b0-6faf-420d-b7b3-e4654db92b3b.jpg?v=1728368893","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lost-northern-kentucky-9781625859822","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}