It's a special year for one Northern Kentucky city, Covington.

It's creating a 50 year timeline capsule to be buried at the site of a new riverfront development.

The city wanted to do things differently, though, and get the community involved in the process of the time capsule.

Our Emily Sisk has more.

Covington is often considered the center of Northern Kentucky.

It's the largest city in the region and has a history well over 200 years old.

The city has begun development of a new multi-million dollar riverfront neighborhood, which has been years in the making.

In preparation for the new project.

The city wanted to leave behind stories from the present day, usually when a time capsule is put together.

In previous times it was usually a city official or a county official or a government that was putting it together.

And Covington didn't want to do that.

Covington wanted the community to be involved in this project.

We want an item, and we wanted documents that show the originality, the quirkiness, the, the vitality of Covington.

The city invited residents, businesses and community partners to donate artifacts for the time capsule.

So I brought this little house.

And this is our logo.

People see this, and they automatically know it's the emergency shelter.

And so we're honored.

There's only about 150 of these.

So we're honored to give one to the time capsule.

We've been such an integral piece of Covington, and Kent County, but primarily Covington because we've remained kind of that community based sheltering and economic development for the city.

We thought, well, hey, perfect opportunity to put in what we're using now, tools to market the city so they can see that 50 years from now.

Some residents who have lived in Covington for generations shared a piece of their family history.

One of those was Allen Somee, whose father served as city commissioner and ran for mayor.

My dad's whole family, we had a dairy in Covington and he had seven brothers, and they all lived around the dairy.

So I was raised in Covington.

I've always stayed in Covington.

I love the area.

I want it to be.

I'm very proud of my father and what he accomplished, and I wanted to share that.

A representative from the Esperanza Latino Center wanted to share a piece of their history.

We also have a little letter to remind people that Covington is a land of layers of life and waves of people coming here, and how also the Latino community is part of these waves as well.

While most participants brought artifacts and heirlooms, another resident's contribution ruffled a few feathers.

It's kind of part of my, I guess, my identity.

People sometimes call me Chicken Ra just because I've been raising chickens and hen specifically because you can't have roosters in Covington.

But, he's been raising hens for years.

This chicken.

Her name is Cosmo, and she is a golden laced Wyandotte.

She's just about two years old.

She wanted to come out and honor Covington, specifically, so it's just awesome.

Although Cosmo won't be going inside the time capsule, many other shared items will a committee of Covington residents, city officials, and Kenton County Public Library specialists will decide what makes the cut.

It's kind of fun to fast forward, in my mind, know 2074, 75.

Like, what will the world be like?

What will people be doing?

And then, like, opening this time capsule and what they pull from it is just kind of fun to think about.

It's a very dynamic city and a city that's growing and progressing and moving forward has transformed so much just in the last, you know, 20, 20 years.

So to speak.

So I just think the momentum is going to keep on building.

Covington is always involved.

It's never been a stagnant place.

It's our duty as residents of 2025 Covington to preserve what's going on now.

So the people in the future will know that.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Emily Sisk.

Thank you.

Emily.

The time capsule will be dedicated on May 30th at the Covington Central Riverfront.

It'll remain buried, like you heard until 2075.