Its days as a bustling manufacturing center and riverboat port still echo through Covington, which was incorporated in 1815 where the Licking River flows into the Ohio. Connected to Cincinnati by the picturesque Roebling Suspension Bridge—a prototype for its more famous counterpart in Brooklyn—the city’s downtown includes a vibrant mashup of restaurants and shops where decades-old, family-owned hardware and sporting goods stores sit alongside lavish boutique hotels and trendy wine and bourbon bars. Storefronts in the town’s lively Madison District have repurposed their preserved architectural charm to welcome a new wave of patrons on the hunt for great food and fashionable finds.

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Wind down at the sophisticated Hotel Covington , whose stylish hubs—the chandelier-lit Coppin’s

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