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Trilby at the Park Theater in 1895 On December 2, 1895, Henderson’s Park Theater presented Trilby, a four-act adaptation of George du Maurier’s popular novel. A surviving program,…
“First Things” In Henderson City and County Since The Good Year Of 1765, By Spalding Trafton, Published 11 January 1924 Do you know who was the first mayor…
Silk Culture in Henderson County, Kentucky By Spalding Trafton Some thirty-eight years after the dawn of the Nineteenth Century when the Course of the Empire was taking its…
Poems by Mrs W R Conover Spring Grim old winter hath fallen asleep,And a beautiful spring is born,Up from her cradle, bright eyes peep,To greet our world now…
Last arrest of Al Capone’s main foe happened in Henderson in 1946 Yesterday’s News by Frank BoyettThe Gleaner, Sunday, July 4, 2021 FBI agents dragged one of America’s…
EARLY DAYS IN HENDERSONRECALLED BY JUDGE YEAMANBegan Law Practice in 1863 Henderson Morning Gleaner – January 9, 1927 This is the first of a series of interviews with…
A Pictorial History of Henderson County, 1775–1950 was published in 1974 for Henderson’s Bicentennial Committee. Compiled by Maralea Arnett, Katheryn Basket, and J. W. Duncan, the booklet brings…
Lost Cities of Henderson County Were 8 in Number; What Has Become of Them? Some of Them Were Only On Paper, While Others Had Promising Starts. One Sold…
The Rise of Apple Production in Henderson County, Kentucky How scientific orcharding, cold storage, cooperative marketing, and the celebrated Winesap made Henderson one of Kentucky’s foremost apple-growing counties…
A Separate Door to Knowledge Henderson’s 1904 library branch for African American readers A 2014 Gleaner feature brought renewed attention to Maria Powell Carr and Henderson’s segregated Eighth…
THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF SHERIFF GREEN WITH GHOST; THRILLING PIONEER STORY Gleaner-Journal, Henderson, KentuckySunday, April 26, 1925, page 10 (Editorial Note—Some twenty-five years ago the late James N….
Coal shortage especially hard on HendersonBy Frank BoyettOCTOBER 15, 2017 A shortage of coal hit Henderson – and much of the rest of the country – during the…