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Clark’s discount department store in Brickyard Plaza at 1321 Second Street, which later became Cook’s and is now Big Lots.
733 Second street has been home to: Chas. Schultz Grocery, J E Blanford Urma store, Red Front Cash & Carry Store #4, Swap Shop, Hoffman’s Antiques, Melton’s Knitting…
Home Oil and Gas Co, A&W Conoco Co located at 202 N Green. This building was demolished and a new service station was built in its place.
Newman’s Mr. Tuxedo Rental and Sales, Horn & Sheffer Insurance (Sam A Sheffer and William B Sheffer salesmen), and J&M Uniforms. These businesses were located in the 200…
Second and Green Street intersection facing North. Standard Oil station, Conoco Station, and now the location of Corpus Christi Clinic.
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