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Before the Second Street overpass, citizens had to deal with the problems of crossing the railroad tracks, which sometimes caused backups. In 1979, the Kentucky Bureau of Highways…
The Hotel Mitchell (later the Hotel Royal) at 430 Second Street in the early 1930s. Before becoming a hotel, it served as a hospital. References: A Pictorial History…
Opened in 1961 in the new Eastgate Shopping Center on Second Street. HENDERSON – “America’s biggest indoor sport’ got a big boost in Henderson during the past year…
Palmer’s was started in 1957 by Bill Palmer. At that time, Palmer’s Service Station was at the edge of town at was then the East Y, across from…
Elijah Worsham (E.W.) Winstead took over the whiskey distillery business from his father, A. S. Winstead. Reference: Pro Whiskey Men
Built in 1904, the Ohio Valley Banking and Trust building sits at the SE corner of Main and Second Streets (140 N Main Street) Harris & Shopbell, architects,…
Full service garage by Malcom C. Melton located at 323-325 Second Street. References: Evansville Courier and Press January 28, 1953 1923 Sanborn Map
Second Street looking East from Main Street. Visible is Ohio Valley National Bank, Hotel Kingdon, and Mann Brothers.
The Morgan Floral Company was incorporated in 1907, and the next year, the company erected its glass greenhouses, covering almost 19,000 square feet, and its office on the…
Clay Drug Company at 222 Second Street was run by Clarence Leslie Clay (1874-1946). Drugs, Office and Kodak Supplies, News Agency, Cigars and Tobacco. Reference: 1923 Henderson Sanborn…
In 1907 Walter Cannon Quinn returned to his home in Henderson, Kentucky after seven years residence in California. He and his brother Arthur Joseph (a lineman for the…