Covington is Kentucky’s fourthlargest city. It is a lively, attractive, and charming settlement of some 43,000 people at the junction of the Ohio and Licking Rivers. It is connected to Cincinnati by a suspension bridge erected in 1866 to the design of John Roebling, who also designed the Brooklyn Bridge.
The area was settled as farmland in the early nineteenth century but later became a manufacturing center. Incorporated in 1834, it was named for General Leonard Covington, a hero of the War of 1812.
Riverboat cruises explore an extensive floating entertainment complex called Covington Landing.
The city has several historic districts, notably Riverside where there are some fine nineteenthcentury houses in a variety of styles.
MainStrasse Village, a five-block commercial area with cobbled walkways, is the old German quarter. It is home to the Carroll Chimes Bell Tower. This Gothic structure has a 43-bell carillon, which sounds hourly. The Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica, which was built in 1895, is a major landmark, modeled for the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. It has one of the world’s largest stained-glass windows. Also of interest is the Behringer-Crawford Memorial Museum, which examines 450 million years of both natural and human history.
Adjacent to Covington is Newport, which has an aquarium with 11,000 animals, and the World Peace Bell Exhibit Center, with the world’s largest freeswinging bell, weighing a mighty 66,000 pounds. It is rung each day at noon.
Buses service Convington. Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport is near Covington, and buses and trains service Cincinnati.
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