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LONGSHOTS By W. G. Schoepflin Sunday Gleaner and Journal, Henderson, Kentucky, July 10, 1932, page 3. The bridge is open and how. They certainly did string across that…
The Ramada Inn on U.S. 41 North In the early 1970s, Henderson welcomed one of its largest motel developments when construction began on a new Ramada Inn at…
From Grist Mill to Grill 🌽 Two hundred years ago, fresh sweet corn wasn’t headed for the backyard barbecue. Instead, much of it would have been dried and…
I wondered what all signs were on this wall in the 200 block of North Main. This old photo clearly shows Red Ranger Cigars. See other ghost signs…
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…