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In 1960, developer Melvin Hunt filed the plat for Balmoral Subdivision, carving a new neighborhood out of farmland just off U.S. Highway 60. The original plan shows wide…
A small reminder that even the old newspapers weren’t perfect. This brief item from the Henderson Morning Gleaner (Oct. 22, 1932) is a good example of a typesetting…
616 S. Adams Street sits on part of Lots 29 and 30 of the Alves Addition, recorded in Deed Book 39, page 190. The parcel fronts 64 feet…
Coal Mining Chief Occupation At Baskett; History Reviewed Henderson Morning Gleaner • Sun, Feb 21, 1926 BASKETT, Ky., Feb. 21 (Special.) On the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis…
Graham Hill takes its name from James Graham, an early Henderson County resident remembered as a man of good standing and character. According to The Gleaner (June 9,…
On May 4, 1907, a neatly drafted subdivision plat was recorded in Deed Book 39, Page 190, marking the creation of the “Jas. S. & Joe B. Alves…
Bald Hill was a well-known early Henderson neighborhood, named for its elevated, once tree-sparse ridge just east of downtown. Late-1800s and early-1900s newspapers regularly referenced Bald Hill as…
Henderson County (1905) Revised 1905 by J. H. Powell From the Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics of the State of Kentucky (1904–1905)…
This unassuming stretch of McKinley Street once anchored a pair of long-running, family-operated businesses that served generations of Henderson residents. By the mid-20th century, Jack Bentley Lumber Co….
Hidden in plain sight near the intersection of Vine Street and South Alves Street is one of Henderson’s most overlooked named alleyways, Royster Alley. Royster Alley shows up…
The Ohio River crested Jan. 31, 1937, at 53.9 feet, and it became the worst American flood on record. Also see: Audubon Mill Park 1937 References: Gleaner: Floodless…