The city was established as the Town of Lakeside Park on May 12, 1930. It has grown by the addition of residential developments so that today, Lakeside Park is a city of the fifth class and is considered one of the garden spots of Northern Kentucky.

The city is composed entirely of residences with the exception of three business sites on the Dixie Highway, five churches and a Federal Post Office. We own the streets other than the major through fares such as Buttermilk Pike, Turkeyfoot Road and Dixie Highway.

The area on which the city was built is of historic interest in the development of this Northern Kentucky Region. In 1798, Colonel John Leathers received ownership of all of it in a vast tract of 994 acres. The Colonel died in 1840, but by that time parcels of the tract had been acquired by others. The first Lakeside Park subdivision was composed of only forty acres by Mr. Paul Hesser who bought it from R.L. and F.D. Crigler. The area was laid out along the west side of the old Lexington Pike and about the lakes. Today, our city includes almost 530 acres and fourteen subdivisions.

There are several historic spots in our city. There was a small Indian mound on the north side of Buttermilk Pike, long since destroyed. The Dry Creek Baptist Church on Buttermilk Pike was established early in the nineteenth century and the solid brick building still stands as a residence. Then there is the old toll house on the Lexington Pike which for many years, was the Retshulte Inn at the corner of Dixie Highway and Hudson Avenue. It has now been restored and remodeled as Barleycorn's Five Mile House.

Perhaps, the oldest venerated spot is the cemetery of the John S. Perry family with few complete markers remaining, carrying early dates and revealing the hardships of life and youthful struggles of the frontier. Our Dixie Highway is laid on the historic road known as the old Lexington Pike, an early path to the south guarded by numerous earthwork forts during the Civil War. To know the derivation of such designations as Turkeyfoot Road and Buttermilk Pike invites some interesting research; research which may uncover other important historic facts.

As of the year 2006 we had 2869 residents in our fine city.