COVINGTON  , a

city and one of the two county-seats of Kenton county, Kentucky, U.S.A., on the Ohio river opposite Cincinnati, with which it is connected by bridges; and at the mouth of the Licking river (also spanned by bridges), opposite Newport, Ky . Pop . (1890) 37,371; (1900) 42,938, of whom 5223 were foreign-born and 2478 were negroes; (1910) 53,270 . In 1900 it ranked second in population among the cities of Kentucky . The city is served by the Chesapeake & Ohio, and the Louisville & Nashville railways, by interurban electric railways, and by steamboat lines to the Ohio river ports . It is built on a plain commanding good views and partly shut in by neighbouring hills . Its streets, mostly named from eminent Kentuckians, are paved chiefly with asphalt, macadam and brick . There are numerous fine residences and several attractive public buildings, including that of the United States government—modern Gothic in style—the court-house and city hall combined, and the public library . Covington is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric, and its cathedral, in the flamboyant Gothic style, is one of the finest church buildings in the state . In the city are the Academy of Notre Dame and St Joseph's high school for boys, both Roman Catholic . The principal charitable institutions are the hospital of Saint Elizabeth, a German orphan asylum, a Protestant children's home, a home for aged women and a Wayfarers' Rest . Covington is the trade centre of an extensive district engaged in agriculture and stock raising, and as a manufacturing centre it ranked second in the state in 1905 (value of factory products $6,099,715), its products including tobacco, cotton goods, structural iron and steel, foundry and machine shop products, liquors and cordage .

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settlement was established here in 1812, and three years later a town was laid out and named in honour of Gen . Leonard Covington (1768–1813), who was mortally wounded at Chrystler's Field during the War of 1812 . In 1834 Covington was chartered as a city; and in 1908 it annexed Central Covington (pop. in 1900, 2155) .