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This historic photograph, labeled “Tobacco Scene, Henderson, Ky”, captures a busy view of downtown Henderson around 1915. The vantage point is looking north along the 200 block of…
Built in 1923, the Majestic was the last of America’s great traveling showboats, bringing live theater and vaudeville to towns along the Ohio River. Pulled by the tug…
222 Clay: irregularly-shaped late Queen Anne style frame cottage with I-gable roof and small front porch with box post and match stick railing filling space on west side…
William Irving Thompson was born 17 Jul 1867 to Dr. Pinckney Thompson (1828-1897) and Nannie Starling Holloway Thompson (1837-1902). Willam Irving Thompson married Lillie Monima Riekie, but they…
(By Spalding Trafton) GLEANER AND JOURNAL, HENDERSON, KY., SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1925. **The first parts of this article are not legible.** I thought this was a cool history…
636 Washington was built in 1930 for Griffin Sutton. This English design was built by architects E. S. Trible & Son.
Yesterday’s News by Frank Boyett SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 A sphinx once guarded Second and Elm streets but it got toasted in 1920 The bakery that once stood at…
Gabriel Decataur Sugg was born 23 Dec 1828 to Wesley Willie Sugg (1784 – 1859) and Kezia Hart Sugg (1793 – 1888). Gabriel Sugg married Harriet Flanders (1834…
The Henderson Curb Market began as an idea in late 1928, when the Henderson County Homemakers’ Clubs proposed a farmers’ market to connect rural producers directly with city…
The story of 6514 Cottingham Lane begins not simply with a house, but with the land itself — a stretch of ground along the old Madisonville Road (now…
Water Street looking North. Visible is the Henderson Train Bridge and 101 Second Street.
Yesterday’s News By Frank Boyett March 3, 2013 Henderson’s city government touts progress in 1938 Henderson city government was not only making great strides in 1938, it was…