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History Of Soft Ball In CityBy SOL Z. BERNSTEIN The Gleaner • Sun, Jun 5, 1938 July 27, 1934 – A meeting was called of all who were…
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…
Held’s Park (Held’s Grove) was a park located at the SW corner of Clay and Meadow Streets and covered six and a half acres. It was a beautiful…
Audubon Mill Park sits along water street right on the Ohio River in an area that once was the location of John James Audubon’s Saw and Grist Mill….
HENDERSON, KY., Aug. 1, 1912 What three years ago was said to be a well threatening the health of the city, polluted with death dealing bacilli and teeming…
The John James Audubon State Park is a 692 acre public park, 575 acres of which are historic. The historic area includes a park, museum, and nature preserve….
On August 29, 1874, the city paid $7,438 to W. T. and John H. Barret, executors of the A. B. Barret estate, for grounds located on the Ohio…
Audubon Saw and Grist Mill was built in 1816 by John James Audubon and his brother-in-law, Thomas Bakewell (Marker #1645). It was a 45 foot by 65-foot stream…
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is…
Excerpt from The Annals and Scandals of Henderson County, Kentucky, 1775-1975: In 1893. John C. Atkinson was elected mayor and soon appointed a committee, composed of S.K. Sneed…