641 Licking Pike, Wilders, Kentucky. County/parish: Campbell.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 11, 1980. NRIS 80001495.
2 contributing buildings. 3 contributing sites.
The St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Wilder, Kentucky is located at 1307 John's Hill Road near Northern Kentucky University. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
A stone church was built on the present site in 1858. The parish was begun by nine German immigrant families, 11 years earlier in 1847. The first church was a log cabin structure built on the top of John's Hill Rd.
The present site is in Campbell County, Kentucky overlooking the Licking River. During the American Civil War the site was used as part of the defense of Cincinnati, Ohio.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123849594