Henderson, Kentucky
City of Henderson Location of Henderson inside Kentucky.
Location of Henderson inside Kentucky.
County Henderson Named for territory speculator Richard Henderson Henderson is a home rule-class town/city along the Ohio River in Henderson County in Kentucky in the United States.
Richard Henderson, an eighteenth-century pioneer and territory speculator, by his associates Gen.
The Henderson County also shares this namesake.
Henderson has its roots in a small, block-wide strip of territory high above the Ohio River, the site of the present Audubon Mill Park directly south of the city's riverfront boat dock.
Richard Henderson and his Transylvania Company had met with 1,200 Cherokee in a council at Sycamore Shoals (present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee) to purchase over 17,000,000 acres (69,000 km2) of territory between the Ohio, Cumberland, and Kentucky rivers in present-day Kentucky and Tennessee to resell it to white settlers.
However, the commonwealth granted Henderson and his business an region of 200,000 acres (810 km2) to develop.
Henderson hired Daniel Boone to survey the nation and select favorable sites, but Henderson died before the town was developed.
Samuel Hopkins and the surveyor Thomas Allin visited Red Banks in 1797 and laid out plans for the future town of Henderson.
By October 29, 1799, a census for the town/city of Henderson showed a populace of 183.
By mid-century, Henderson County had turn into a primary producer of tobacco, much of which was exported to Great Britain.
The region was reported to be the biggest dark tobacco producer in the world; large tobacco warehouses and stemmeries dotted the downtown Henderson area.
Shortly before World War I, Henderson was said to have more millionaires per capita than any other town/city in the world. Great Britain, however, imposed a high tariff on imported tobacco after the war, wrecking the county and city's export market.
Henderson continued as a county-wide center into the 20th century.
In the early 20th century, Henderson's town/city had very recognizable neighborhoods (unincorporated places) inside the town/city and the outlying edges of town, including: Audubon, Weaverton, and Audubon Heights.
In 1908 the Henderson region had high temperatures and a drought, which noteably reduced the flow of the Ohio River.
On June 20, 1914, Henderson was hit by a "baby cyclone." In the northern part of Henderson, a several buildings were blown down and wheat stocks were scattered.
Henderson, on its bluff, was spared much of the damage that Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville, Paducah and other river metros/cities suffered.
Leigh Harris, the publisher of the Henderson Gleaner and Evening Journal newspapers, wrote, "Henderson is on the river but never in it!" A workplace shooting occurred at an Atlantis Plastics factory in Henderson on June 25, 2008.
The gunman, 25-year-old Wesley Neal Higdon, shot and killed five citizens and critically injured a sixth person before taking his own life. The shooting is the worst in the history of Henderson County in terms of casualties, surpassing triple homicides occurring in 1799 and 1955. Henderson is positioned at 37 50 8 N 87 34 51 W (37.835587, -87.580713). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.1 square miles (44.2 km ), of which 15.0 square miles (38.8 km ) is territory and 2.1 square miles (5.5 km ) (12.36%) is water.
Because the Indiana-Kentucky border is defined as the low-water mark on the north bank of the Ohio River as of 1792, and because the river changed course as a result of the New Madrid earthquake of 1812, a small portion of Henderson County (approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) long and 1-mile (1.6 km) wide), lies north of the current course of the river in what would appear to be part of Indiana.
The Henderson Area Rapid Transit (HART) was created in 1957 as a publicly owned mass transit system, of which all people who live in the City of Henderson are part owners.
US 41's Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges joins the town/city with Evansville to the north and, to the south, the metros/cities of Madisonville and Hopkinsville.
The ZIP codes used in the town/city of Henderson are 42419 and 42420, and it uses the telephone region codes 270 and 364.
Because the two region codes cover the same geographic region, 10-digit dialing (i.e., including the region code when dialing, even for small-town calls) has been required since February 2014.
The exceptions are the Ellis Park Racecourse racing track, as mentioned above, the Kentucky DOT truck scale, and the Trocadero Plaza Sinclair station, all positioned on US Highway 41, and the Marina Plaza on adjoining Waterworks Road, which all use Indiana's 812 region code despite being positioned in Henderson County.
In June 2008, of the 20,205 jobs in Henderson, almost 12% were government jobs.
Henderson is also one of the state's dominant coal producers, with over 2.8 million tons produced in 2004. The Henderson County school fitness includes eight elementary schools: A.B.
Chandler, Spottsville, East Heights, Bend Gate, South Heights, Jefferson, Cairo, and Niagara; two middle schools, North Middle and South Middle; and one high school, Henderson County High School.
Henderson is home to one postsecondary institution, Henderson Community College, as well as a satellite ground of Murray State University. In addition, students are also served by Oakland City University Evansville Center, the University of Evansville, and the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville.
Each year Henderson hosts a range of affairs and festivals.
The Henderson Breakfast Lions Club holds the Tri-Fest, a street festival that raises funds for non-profit organizations, in mid-April each year.
Annual barbecues have been a Henderson tradition dating as far back as the one started on Sunday, July 18, 1926 in Atkinson Park by the Henderson Freight Station employees.
It is Henderson's earliest on-going music festival and marked its 25th continuous year in 2010.
The Green River Arts & Crafts Festival is a large event that has been held for more than 30 years on a weekend in early October at John James Audubon State Park and organized by the Green River Area Development District. Handy lived for nearly a decade in Henderson before he started writing music.
I didn't write any music in Henderson, but it was there I realized that experiences I had had, things I had seen and heard could be set down in a kind of music characteristic of my race.
Each year, Henderson honors Handy by holding one of the biggest outside no-charge concerts in the USA, the Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival.
A several scenes from the movie A League of Their Own (1992) were shot in Henderson, including boarding home scenes filmed at 612 North Main St., once the home of Augustus Owsley Stanley, a governor of Kentucky and U.S.
Henderson was the home of the county-wide premiere of the 2006 musical Chaplin.
The show was directed and starred Henderson native J.
A chief attraction in Henderson is the Ellis Park Race Course, originally titled Dade Park.
Although Ellis Park is positioned on the Indiana side of the Ohio River, by an oddity of history, the territory from Waterworks and Shawnee roads in Evansville south to the Ohio River are part of Henderson County.
In 1994, the Henderson Recreational Association signed a contract with the Babe Ruth League, Inc.
This was the first time the town/city of Henderson had ever hosted a primary sporting event.
Two years later, the town decided to bring the Series back to Henderson.
On the day of the event, The Gleaner, the small-town newspaper, presented a special program for the event; it encompassed data on all the teams, bios, pictures and a baseball card treatment for the host team, the Henderson All-Stars. The 1996 Bambino World Series began on August 17, 1996.
Organized baseball for Henderson's youth (primarily boys) was started by William Hebe, James "Hank" Harpole, and Joe Gabe via organizational meetings in the small-town YMCA in 1949-50.
The town/city reclaimed landfill property on the high banks of the Ohio River and dedicated it to the evolution of three regulation fields, two for Little League (boys 6-12) and one for "Pony League" (boys 12-15), called Park Field.
The region is adjoining to a town/city park.
John James Audubon State Park Ornithologist, naturalist, and painter John James Audubon spent a several years in Henderson in the 1810s.
River Front The city's downtown and river front has a simple design, especially the Audubon Mill Park.
Along with the parks, the river front's play region showcases a prominent water park fountain.
The water park has two areas; one larger region contains forty-five jets varying in height from a several feet to a towering fifteen feet, and the second play region has lesser jets approximately two feet in height.
Green River State Forest About five miles (8 km) northeast of Henderson is 1,106 acres (4.48 km2) of the Green River State Park.
More than half of the park is situated at the bottoms of Henderson's bluff toward the Ohio river, with 65 70 acres (260,000 280,000 m2) of swampland.
The Green RIver State Forest and Henderson's north side have sites that are considered part of Desoto's Trail.
Henderson is served by one small-town daily newspaper, The Gleaner, as well as the metro version of the Evansville Courier & Press.
Henderson is part of the Evansville media market, the 101st-largest tv market and 161st-largest radio market in the United States.
WEHT, Evansville's ABC affiliate, has its studios and transmitting fortress located in Henderson, though it is licensed to Evansville.
Until December 2011, it was the only region TV station headquartered in Henderson, but when then-WTVW owner Nexstar Broadcasting purchased WEHT, it spun off the former to its company partner, Mission Broadcasting, and entered into a shared services agreement through which WEHT and WTVW are co-managed.
Handy, black blues legend, (spent about a decade in Henderson) Rosa Henderson, American jazz and blues singer Grandpa Jones, Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones, banjo player, comedian, born in Henderson County John James Audubon, ornithologist (spent a several years in Henderson in the 1810s) Junius Bibbs, winner of three Negro Leagues championships as a member of the Kansas City Monarchs, born in Henderson "Henderson, Kentucky".
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Climate Summary for Henderson, Kentucky "Henderson County Schools Website".
"Murray State University Henderson Regional Campus".
"Depot Henderson Barbecue Henderson County:".
"Silk Culture in Henderson County, Kentucky".
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