Fort Mitchell, Kentucky

Fort Mitchell sits in Kentucky's northern tip, separated from Cincinnati by only the Ohio River. The town took its name from a Civil War earthwork built here in eighteen sixty-one to guard the approaches to Cincinnati, part of a ring of defensive forts the Union threw up after Confederate forces threatened to cross the river. The fortifications were never seriously tested, but the name stuck.

Fort Mitchell was chartered as a city in nineteen ten and grew as a streetcar suburb of Cincinnati, filling in through the mid-twentieth century. Today it is a compact residential community of about nine thousand in Kenton County, known mainly as the Kentucky approach to the I-Seventy-Five bridge into downtown Cincinnati.