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The Story of W. F. Wells – Merchant of Spottsville In the quiet river community of Spottsville, long shaped by the Green River, coal camps, and the steady…
Henderson Hero at Bastogne: Pvt. Hardis J. Liggett (1922-1944) 🇺🇸 If you walk through Fernwood Cemetery and find the grave of Pvt. Hardis J. Liggett, you will notice…
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…
Samuel Husband CromwellInsurance Man, Civic Leader, and Mayoral Candidate In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Henderson’s civic and business life was shaped by a number of…
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…
Opened in 1956 as City High School. It is now South Middle School.
Peter Lavialle Whelan (1916-1944) Peter Lavialle Whelan was one of Henderson’s promising young men whose life and future were cut short by World War II. Born on February…
Joy Reddish (1893-1934)A River Man’s Life in an Unforgiving Era On July 28, 1934, in a cell at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Joy Reddish died at…
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…