Where To Stay

Carrollton / Carroll
County Tourism
P.O. Box 293
Carrollton, KY 41008
502-732-7036
1-800-325-4290

The Poppy Shop

• Built in 1854 the Southern Bank of Kentucky was robbed September 6, 1863 by 9 Confederate Renegades & 3 local citizens.

• The Post Office was built in 1901 on land purchased from the Darling Family in 1900.  The architecture is Greek Revival.

• First Presbyterian Church built in 1830.  During the Civil War, Union Army used as a horse stable.  Current church built in 1891.

• During the 1937 Flood, the water level reached 79.9 feet.  Normal Pool Stage is 12.5 feet.

• There have been four Courthouses:  1798, 1808, 1840 and the current Courthouse built in 1884.

• McNeal’s Hardware was Grobmyer’s Livery Stable.  The original circa 1875 building was destroyed by fire.  The Furniture Store was the Palace Saloon.
  
                          

• The building now Burgin’s Floor Coverings was built in 1910 by WL Gaines, known as Gaines Drug Store.
  
                          

• Jake and Nellie Lee built the building currently the Cornercopia in 1922.  Once known as the Poppy Shop was Carrollton’s soda fountain.

• The Old Stone Jail built 1880 with limestone from a Jefferson County quarry brought up the Ohio River by boat.  Was used until 1969.

• Siersdorfer Building built 1891 housed the Siersdorfer Shoe Store.  In later dates, it housed the Central Hotel, A&P Grocery & elegant apartments.

• Art & George Leep’s Pioneer Grocery Store built in 1882 is now the New Image Beauty Salon.  The ironwork and façade is original.

• MI Barker built this building 1898.  It housed Carrollton’s first telephone exchange.  In 1993 it became JCC’s Carrollton Campus.

• Glauber Shoe Store owned and operated by the same family as a shoe store in the same location, since 1873.  Noted in world record books.

• The Burke Building was built in 1872 as a general store; it was later used as the John Howe & Sons Bank.

• Carrollton Inn established in 1805 as the Point House was rebuilt as the Houghton House in 1884.

• The Harrison House was built by RF Harrison a SGM in the Confederate 4^th Kentucky Calvary.  He was County Clerk from 1835-1896.

• Colonel William Peachy was granted 2000 acres of land at the confluence of the Kentucky & Ohio Rivers in 1763 for military service.

• Benjamin Craig and James Hawkins established Port William 1794.  Name changed 1838 to Carrollton in honor of Charles Carroll.

• Carrollton Landing 1816 is believed to be the oldest standing building left in Old Port William.  Rumored part of the Underground Railroad.

• DeMint House was built in 1819 and is a fine example of an early 18^th century riverfront home.

• Water Street once ran parallel to Main Street along the Ohio River.  Floods and erosion washed the street away long ago.

• A series of four fires (1874, 1885, 1895 and 1977) destroyed this block of buildings.

• Ohio River Valley Worst Floods

• Built in 1872 as C Berg Jewelry Store, this narrow building had been a hallway to an upstairs apartment over Hill’s Shoe Store.

• Built 1875 as Driscoll’s Saloon later was Winslow’s Law Offices.  Now houses the Carrollton Federal Bank.

• The Fifth Street Ramp was the site where various Show Boats and the Ferry from Lamb Indiana landed.

• General Butler State Resort Park dedicated August 12, 1936. Land was made available largely due to the Carrollton Tobacco Board & Oscar Geier, local citizen.

• Carrollton was the “Third Largest Burley Tobacco Market in the World” for decades during the 1900s.