Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1982. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Anderson Ferry is a ferry across the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Constance, Kentucky. It has been in continuous operation since 1817.”
Wikipedia article Anderson Ferry, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1982 · category: District · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.82003575- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
The reader looks forward to this, the first history of Cincinnati that has yet found itself in print. The writers look back across its half-century of chapters and the century of years embraced by its annals, and have, chiefest of all, to regret many unavoidable errors, both of omission and commission. The more important of these, it is hoped, will appear in our page of errata; but there are still many, doubtless, that have escaped the compilers' attention. In a few cases, discrepancies appear between their statements and those of an extract immediately following. In those instances they must assure the reader that the former rest upon an authority believed to be superior to the other in regard to the matter in hand; but time and space could not always be taken for the discussion and settlement of points concerning which there are variant reports. In all really important matters, they believe the history will be found quite trustworthy, especially when corrected from the page of errata.
Within the decade whose annals have just been passed in review, fell the birth of Cincinnati township, to which was entrusted, for almost twelve years, the government of Cincinnati village, which it of course contained. The township was created, after Columbia, by the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, which then had jurisdiction in these matters, in 1791. To the time of the erection of these townships, the whole county, which contained but a few hundred white inhabitants, was most conveniently governed as one municipality.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,564 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Anderson Ferry between 1820 and
1973: 1,078 Animalia, 757 Fungi, 640 Plantae, 72 Protozoa, 10 Unrecorded, 7 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Anderson Ferry: 3 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
7,779 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
The Boone #7 ferry boat was constructed in 1937 of steel plate. It is 65' long and 37½' wide diyided lengthwise by a driveway with the engineroom and smoke stack on Little Boone, constructed in 1952, is 70' long and 23' wide. It is basically a On the Ohio side of the Ohio River the Anderson Ferry site consists of approximately 1.2 acres of land which falls in a low undulation to the rivers edge. The asphalt covered access road leading to the ferry ramp divides the site into two parcels of gable roof, 6/6 double hung sash windows, clapboard siding and cornerboards. 3. This is a moderate, older, rectangular 1½ story board and batten barn building, CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT RUINS FAIR XGOOD on the south facade. CHECK ONE seam metal roof.A shed roofed addition is found on the north facade.
mixed forest and fallow areas.Found at the junction of the access road and Kentucky XUNALTERED A recent one-story 12'x 20'board and batten rectangular functional out- by vertical board siding and corrugated metal.roof; used primarily for storage. land that are primarily used for agricultural purposes. barge and forward of the work boat.Reversing direction is accomplished by swinging the rivers edge is the ferry ramp and found in close association is the mooring site main entrance and hay loft entry are on south facade, Low gable with standing building is used primarily for storage. for Boone #7.
During hours when Little Boone is not in operation it also is moored the work boat around the piyot hitch, proceed directly off at the other end after landing: New vehicles then proceed turned columns and decorative bracing.A one-story frame addition is found directly on what was the off end and the procedure is reversed for the next trip.
/ARCHITECT N/A STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE with continuous conveyance of people, comiodities, matertals, and various types of Kottmyer, a relative of the present owner, purchased the ferry and its landing sites. Through the years the Kottmyer family has built numerous ferry boats, which includes Both Boone #7 and Little Boone are active in the commercial operation of the ferry and This nomination includes the land that has had a long historical association with the 1700-1799 1817 ENGINEERING association. ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT PERIOD RELIGION THEATER conditions permit. LITERATURE for this significant river crossing. contributes a direct physical association needed to keep it in active use.
-POLITICS/GOVERNMENT as double ended design and side propulsion to facilitate ease of entry and egress for _PHILOSOPHY The ferry is entered by direct approach from its landing sites and is in operation which time it started to pass through numerous ownership until 1865.In 1865 Charles X1800-1899 XTRANSPORTATION Anderson Ferry provided and continues to provide a transportation link to facilitate barge allowing for easy reversing in its direction of movement. Its barge is open ended.
its propulsion within an independent side work boat attached by a pivot hitch to the -1600-1699 contact and interaction between the states.Although less than fifty years old the ferry boats Boone #7 and "Little Boone are exceptional and contribute an integral tethered in stalls walking on a treadmill which, in turn, rotated the paddlewheels. -1500-1599 approximately 15 hours each day and transports between 150-200 vehicles when river #1",a steam paddlewheel ferry boat to replace a boat that was powered by two horses - CONSERVATION It has been in the Kottmyer family ever since.In 1867 Charles Kottmyer built Boone -1400-1499 - MILITARY _PREHISTORIC _COMMERCE George Anderson, for whom the ferry is.named, purchased in 1817 an existing ferry vehicles.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 82003575, 53 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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