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Santa Letters

Merry Christmas! Below are a few of the hundreds of letters to Santa the Gleaner has published.

Christmas Day Newspaper Greetings

Park Machine Shop

Park Machine Shop has been around since at least 1909, originally located across the street at 419 First Street. It’s been at its current location of 426 First…

1976 S Main Aerial

Train Crossing Watchman

I wondered about these train crossing watchmen and then came across this explanation in the The Gleaner from Wed, Apr 10, 1895. ANSWERING A QUESTION,Councilman Johnson asked a…

Surgical Hospital at Center and Green

Surgical Hospital located on the corner of Center and Green Streets. Dr. Letcher

412 N Elm

Unique brickwork on this house is similar to 1 Clark Street.

A 1956 aerial view looking East from US 41 N.

A 1956 aerial view looking East from US 41 N. Electric Motors, at right, and KY Gasoline Transport Service are visible. Electric Motors, 2204 US 41 N, is…

825 Woodspoint

825 Woodspoint in the Grantwood Hills Subdivision.

Mayors

Mayors of Henderson: William B. Vanzandt (Vansant) 1854Martin S. Hancock 1854-1859Ed G. Hall 1860-1862David Banks 1862-1865P. B. Matthews 1866-1868E. L. Starling 1868-1874Jacob Held 1874-1875John C. Atkinson 1875-1879Frances M….

Windy’s Lunch

William O. and Verna Windhaus and daughter Eleanor Windhaus Tillotson (right) at Windy’s at 509 Atkinson Street, across from Atlas Tack, in 1944.

Various ‘settlements’ and nicknames for sections of town

“Redbanks” is surely a name everyone has heard before; it’s the name of the settlement here before Henderson was established. Here are a few more that you may…