The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusMentor is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 218 as of the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 193 to 218 (+13%). Half of its homes were built before 1980.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mentor yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Mentor’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mentor’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Mentor, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Mentor is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Mentor has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is U.S. Grant Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic District in Monroe, 0.9 miles away.
Mentor and the nearest listed places
Closest to Mentor
U.S. Grant Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic DistrictMonroe · District0.9miElijah Herndon HouseCalifornia · Building3.5mi
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and CemeteryMentor · Built 18613.6miNew Richmond Water Works and Electric StationNew Richmond · Building4mi
Ross-Gowdy HouseNew Richmond · Building4.4miHow a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.