City of Park Hills, Kentucky

Park Hills is a suburban city positioned in the hills of Northern Kentucky along U.S. 25. With the exception of a few homes and businesses, the Park Hills area was sparsely populated in the nineteenth century because it was too hilly for farming and too remote for housing.

A landmark in Park Hills was the Stonewall House, a restaurant tavern that dated to the mid-1800’s as a stopover point for stock drovers on the way to the market at Covington or Cincinnati. During the 1930’s it was remodeled and named the Hotel Hahn.

Development of Park Hills into a residential suburb began in the 1920’s, decades after other Northern Kentucky cities were taking shape. Investors D.Collins Lee and Robert Simmons developed the land, and enough residents had moved there by 1927 to enable Park Hills to incorporate as a city.

The city’s best known landmarks include St Joseph Heights, Covington Catholic and Notre Dame Academy.