Did you know that Covington is on the National Register of Historic Places not because of its architecture, but because of a unique characteristic of its mid-town layout, the ox-lots. Each block in mid-town has an open center that can be reached by an alley from two streets. “These lots were more French in origin than English. The English had one huge square in the village, not open areas in the center of each block. The original use was not to stable oxen. That came later. In recent years, the city went to court to reclaim the ox-lots as city property because businesses were encroaching on them. The city of Covington is turning these ox-lots into well needed public parking.