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Old Fire House #1 located on Elm Street behind the old City Building at Central Park. Approximately the area of the parking lot now. Built 1895 and demolished…
The Henderson County Tuberculosis Hospital, designed by architect Harry B. Boyle, was built in 1917 at a cost of about $25,000 and it appears to have been more…
Center Street public school was located on South Green street just South of Center., approximately where Independence Bank sits today.
First named Recreation Park, then Goodfellow Field, and now Kimmel Park, the lot at Sixth and Ingram Streets has hosted ball games since 1934. The Henderson Goodfellows, a…
The City of Henderson’s gas plant was located at Water and Washington streets. It produced gas from coal and operated up until 1929.
Frank Boyett wrote the earliest mention of the bell he could find is on page 269 of Country Court Order Book E, which is dated Dec. 22, 1845….
The old City Building, built in 1903, was demolished on Sept. 1, 1971. The building had been condemned as unsafe because of damage suffered in a Nov. 9,…
The old post office building located at Third and Main Streets was built in 1904. It was demolished in 1965 after the current post office was built at…
This wreck occurred on Fifth Street at Lambert and involved a city Fire Department car. Visible in the background is 5th Street Market.