Editing Crescent Springs, Kentucky (section)

==History==
Originally a stop on the [[Cincinnati Southern Railroad]], the name Crescent Springs could refer to either the shape of the tracks crossing through the community or to [[New Orleans]]'s nickname "the Crescent City" after its shape beside the [[Mississippi River]]. (New Orleans was the southern terminus of the Cincinnati Southern, from which it was sometimes known as the "[[Queen and Crescent Route|Queen and Crescent Railroad]]".<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&dq=cannon+ky&pg=PA72 | title=Kentucky Place Names | publisher=University Press of Kentucky | year=1987 | access-date=2013-04-28 | author=Rennick, Robert M. | pages=72}}</ref>)

In 1930, the [[International Labor Defense]] alleged that Crescent Springs was a [[sundown town]] where African Americans were not allowed to reside.<ref>{{cite news|title=To Protest Eviction: International Labor Defense Plans Mass Meeting Friday Night|work=[[The Cincinnati Post]]|publisher=Scripps-Howard Newspapers|volume=99|issue=87|date=April 11, 1930|page=1|via=NewsBank|quote=The Labor Defense believes the Negro innocent of the crime and that he was 'framed' for daring to go thru Crescent Springs, Ky., where, according to the Labor Defense, Negroes are not allowed to live.}}</ref>