Re: Elsmar?
Elsmar is an old street in Ft. Thomas. I think the houses are circa late 1930's to early 1940ish. My father bought the house around 1950. It was the last house on the street. Same story all of us older folks can tell. Woods all around us except going up the street. These days most of it is developed. It was close enough (about a mile) that we could hike through the woods, take the output branch of 'Three Creeks Meet' (as we called it, and which was a great place to catch crayfish) back then and we'd end up at the railroad tracks. Just over the tracks was
Mary Ingles Highway (it is an old 2 lane highway, now route 8 and sometimes called the River Road) and then the Ohio river (right where there were 3 'ice breakers' and where in high school some of us went to swim).
It's mostly built up around there now. What was the horse farm next door is now a subdivision.
Which is why I bought where I am now. About 140 acres of woods and a couple horse pastures and hay fields. No river near by, but that's not a biggie to me. I don't want a house next door 5 feet from my window. Lots of critters and such. Yet, I'm less than 2 easy, low traffic miles from I-75, hospital close by, big shots live just up the road so there's even state police patrolling, all sorts of stores from Kroger to Meijer to Home Depot and Lowes, to - Well, you get the idea. It's not the 1950's but I like my little 'island'.
