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The 4-H exhibits have been judged, the amusement company has packed up all the rides. The pageant queen begins her year as Miss Boone County Fair. The Boone County 4-H & Utopia Fair has concluded, but the Recorder presents photos of this year’s highlights. – LIFE, PAGE B1
Baby Contest photos welcome
The Boone County 4-H & Utopia Fair has finished up for another year. In addition to our fair coverage, the Recorder will publish photos of the Baby and Preschool Show winners. If your child competed, the Recorder and the fair committee ask you to send a photo of your child with the following information: Child’s name, which place they came in and the category (such as 2year-old girls). E-mail photos to ndaly@nky.com or mail to: Nancy Daly, Boone County Recorder, 228 Grandview Drive, Fort Mitchell KY 41018. Deadline is Aug. 27.
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Bones stop water project
By Paul McKibben
Scenes from the Boone County Fair
W e b s i t e : N K Y. c o m
B E C A U S E C O M M U N I T Y M AT T E R S
Petersburg residents won’t be getting public water service anytime soon because the state rejected Boone County’s application for a grant over a concern about disrupting Native American remains. The county has received $1.2 million in state money allocated by the General Assembly two years ago in House Bill 608. The funds were to build a water line along Ky. 20 to Petersburg and about a half mile out of the town on that road, according to Assistant County Administrator Robin Curry.
The county applied to the state for a Community Development Block Grant, federal money administered through the states. The grant was for $1 million. Petersburg had qualified for the grant because it met income requirements (low to moderate). Curry said the county received a positive response for installation with the requirement that the county stay within the right-of-way. But he said the Kentucky Heritage Council said the county couldn’t dig in Petersburg unless the county always had a qualified archaeologist there. If crews hit some bones, then a team of archaeologists have to be brought in.
Elizabeth Roach, spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department of Local Government, said in a e-mailed statement that the state historic preservation officer (SHPO) alerted the county to Native American remains and then placed additional requirements on the county for its proposed project. She said those requirements would increase the cost and time frame. “The complications with the burial remains were a factor in the grant not being approved,” she said. “With SHPO requirements, the total project cost was increased to $1 million dollars. DLG’s goal is to support projects that are as efficient
and cost-effective as possible.” Roach said the project led to an extremely high cost per household and it was categorized as priority III (with priority I the top score). She said the cost per household was the primary factor in the grant not being approved. Curry guessed that it would cost $1 million to extract the bones. He said the cost could exceed that or be less. He said the county can’t afford to pay for the extraction. DLG notified the county it had rejected its grant application on May 11.
See WATER PROJECT on page A2
Around and around Hayden Keitz of Petersburg rides a carousel Aug. 3 at the Boone County 4-H & Utopia Fair. PAUL MCKIBBEN/ STAFF
Pet paparazzi
Is there a Paw McCartney or Charles Barkley in your life? If you’ve named one of your pets after a famous person, we’d like to hear your story and see a photo. Just visit nky.com/Share, log in or create a free account, and click “Publish photos.” Look for the “Pets” gallery and be sure to include the story behind your pet’s name and the community you live in.
Students build car for speedway
Students at the Boone County Area Technical Center recently finished a 10-month project of building a race car. – SCHOOLS, PAGE A8 For the Postmaster
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Dinsmore searched for graves
By Paul McKibben pmckibben@nky.com
Two experts on Aug. 2 did research at the historic Dinsmore Homestead in Burlington in hopes of finding new graves. Russell Quick of Cultural Resource Analysts Inc. in Lexington and Ken Tankersley, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Cincinnati, and Tankersley’s students were at the rural Boone County landmark. Cathy Collopy, education coordinator at Dinsmore, said Quick found evidence that there might be a grave outside the homestead’s graveyard (one or two). She said there are indications there are graves close to graveyard’s wall. The wall is the border of the current graveyard that has been in existence since 1867. James Dinsmore purchased property in Boone County in 1839 and three years later his house was completed. He and wife Martha had daughters Julia, Susan and Isabella. While Quick used ground penetrating radar, Tankersley had a
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University of Cincinnati undergraduate anthropology student Daniel Conrad holds a proton magnetometer meter while UC graduate anthropology student Emily Culver takes notes at a graveyard at Dinsmore Homestead in Burlington. proton magnetometer. Collopy said students took readings. The students will go back to class, put the readings into a computer program and they will be able to map out a graveyard. The students and Quick will share their information with Dins-
more. There could be more graves inside the graveyard. Dinsmore hasn’t decided how to recognize any graves that might be found. There are no plans to exhume the graves and Collopy said Dinsmore will never be able to put an
engraved headstone up. That’s because Dinsmore won’t know who exactly is in the graves. Instead there could be a paper list of who is buried inside or outside the graveyard. There is currently a brochure listing people buried inside the graveyard. Collopy said it is possible there could have been people buried on the hillside before the Dinsmores came to the property. Six generations of Dinsmores are buried inside the graveyard, including Julia Dinsmore who inherited the property in 1872. The last burial was in 1995. The oldest grave that the homestead knows about was in 1847 (Silas Dinsmoor, different spelling than the Dinsmore family), according to Collopy. Silas was James Dinsmore’s uncle and lived along the Ohio River about a mile from the homestead. There are people who had been slaves buried in the graveyard. The Dinsmores did own slaves. Collopy said Tankersley suspects a bump in the graveyard might be an old Indian burial ground.
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