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Pargny’s

To visit Pargny’s was a treat beyond description. This was a confectionery shop located on Main Street from (circa) 1893 to 1924, with m Pargny as the Major-domo….

406 Second Street / Sugg & Co

Henderson County Ford Dealer

Kentucky Terrace Motel

Construction started January 17, 1955 on the Kentucky Terrace Motel, built on a 10-acre plot 300 yards south of the entrance to Audubon State Park on Highway 41….

Howard Johnson’s

Howard Johnson’s Restaurant was built in 1955 along with the Kentucky Terrace Motel, just South of the entrance to Audubon State Park. The location is now a Dollar…

Checkerboard Restaurant

Henderson Train Bridge

The Henderson Train Bridge, costing over $3,000,000, opened on December 31, 1932. Including its approaches, it is 12,123 feet (3,695 m) long, and its span over the main…

Louisville & Nashville 1885 Rail Road Bridge

In 1872 an act of the Kentucky General Assembly incorporated the Henderson Bridge Company for the purpose of constructing the bridge, and in 1879 the L&N secured control…

230 Second Street

230 Second Street: Masonic Temple, Kentucky Theater, 7 Arts Cinema, now Citi-Center building. The Masonic Hall is a four-story, five-bay, twentieth century, classical revival property of brick masonry…

Brownie’s Lunch

Green Gables Restaurant

941 N Green, Corner 10th and Green Street Reference: A Pictorial History Of Henderson And Henderson County, Kentucky, Volumes I & II Published by Gleaner-Journal Publishing 1957 Telephone…

Blackwell Discovery Well

April 22, 1938 Reference: YouTube video on Birk City

Osborn Manufacturing

In 1942 a tract of land at Atkinson and Pringle was donated by the Atlas Tack corporation on which was constructed the American Chrome Company’s $75,000 factory. In…