Years of Growth 1860 – 1900

 

1861 – Fort Sumter fired on – Fayette County boys begin to volunteer

1862 – First railroad reaches Connersville

1865 – The “Boys in Blue” return home

1866 – Street names changed to present ones

1867 – Whitewater Valley “Towpath Line” railroad reaches town

1869 – Town of Connersville chartered as “City of Connersville”

1870 – Population 2,496

1870 – First Connersville waterworks organized

1874 – Manufacture of furniture becomes important local industry

1875 – First streetlights installed

1878 – First high school graduation – nine class members

1880 – Population 3,223

1887 – Kennedy’s build covered bridge across river at Fifth Street

1887 – Connersville Times becomes Connersville’s first daily newspaper

1888 – Police Department organized

1890 – Population 4,548 – County 12,630 – East Connersville 458

1890 – Streets were lighted by electricity

1895 – McFarland Hotel opens for business

1895 – First sewers installed

1895 – Andrew Frazee organizes the Connersville Telephone Company

1896 – John B. McFarlan establishes an Industrial Park

1898 – Rex Buggy Company starts business on Western Avenue

1898 – Central Manufacturing Company opens on West Seventh Street

1900 – Population 6,836 – County 13,495