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 Addition to the City of Henderson.” With that filing, land on the edge of town was formally laid out into building lots and presented as an extension of the growing city.
The language recorded by the county clerk notes that the subdivision “abuts to the City of Henderson,” reflecting the early twentieth-century pattern of growth – farmland surveyed, divided, and positioned as the next step outward from the established town.
By placing their names on the plat, James S. Alves and Joe B. Alves permanently attached themselves to this piece of Henderson’s expansion. What had once been open ground was now a mapped neighborhood – measured in fifty-foot increments and ready for houses, sidewalks, and front porches.
More than a century later, the Jas. S. & Joe B. Alves Addition remains part of Henderson’s historic fabric – a reminder of the era when the city steadily pushed beyond its earlier boundaries and families like the Alveses helped shape that growth one subdivision at a time.
