Brent/Coney Island
Station
Brent is an area along Kentucky 8 and the Ohio River just south of the I-275 bridge. The area may best be known for the Brent Ferry which carried passengers to Coney Island Ohio from Coney Island Station, the original name for Brent, for years prior to the opening of the I-275 bridge.
The citizens wanted the community to be known as South Parker's Grove, but the Post Office refused that name. During Colonel Philip Brent Spence's tenure as postmaster of Newport, federal postal officials told Spence to pick a new name for the small community along the Ohio River in Campbell County called Coney Island Station. A ferry operated from there to the Coney Island amusement park, which was just across the river on the Ohio side. Both Coney Island, Ohio and Coney Island Station, Ky. however, had post offices and the similarity of names was causing confusion. Philip chose Brent, the name of his son and father, Brent Spence, a native of Ireland and the first to come to America.
Brent Elementary School-was a one room frame school located on a hillside overlooking Coney Island and the Ohio River. In operation in 1894, it was closed and sold 1940.
Brent School 1923-1924 Grades 1-8
Brent School 1924-1925 Grades 1-8
Brent School 1925-1926 Grades 1-8
Brent School 1926-1927 Grades 1-8
Brent School 1927-1928 Grades 1-8
Brent School 1928-1929 Grades 1-8
Brent School 1929-1930 Grades 1-8
Brent School 1930-1931 Grades 1-8