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Henderson Hero: Corporal Luke Richard Briscoe, Jr. 🇺🇸 If you walk through Fernwood Cemetery on a quiet afternoon, you might pass it without realizing what you’re seeing. A…
If only this could be located… It will be remembered the German Artist, Mr. H. Wedge, spent sone five or six weeks in taking a bird’s eye pencil…
Jealousy, Murder, and Prison: The Troubled Life of Nash Sands In the winter of 1905, a short marriage in Henderson County began with what seemed like an ordinary…
In the years just before the Civil War, Henderson County was already looking ahead-toward growth, innovation, and community pride. That vision took shape in the mid-1850s with the…
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…