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- Stantec awarded Henderson project
The Louisville office of Edmonton, Canada-based design firm Stantec has been awarded a contract worth $539,500 by the city of Henderson, Ky., to design an extension of the city's River Walk along the Ohio ...
- Traffic Stop Nets 50 Grams of Marijuana
Traffic Stop Nets Approximately 50 Grams of Marijuana Evansville - Yesterday afternoon at 2:00 p.m., Indiana State Police arrested two Henderson men after troopers discovered approximately 50 grams of marijuana ...
- Henderson man arrested in New Year's Day stabbings
Henderson authorities arrested Robert Clinton Slaughter, 40, of Henderson, on Friday in connection with the stabbing of three men on New Year's Day.
- Workshop will explore the business of art
Whether art is a first or a second career, a Jan. 17 workshop offered by the Artists Advisory Council of the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft will suit anyone in the art business.
- Peace on Earth
The holiday spirit of love and generosity thrives so heartily at Carol Gatlin's country home that even her pets have gotten into the act.
- Kidstuff: Cancer-curing socks amaze local youngster
Taylor Clapp, son of Brett and Leigh Ann Clapp, participated in a school fundraiser recently and one night before Thanksgiving he and his mom were preparing to make deliveries to family members and friends ...
- Mother hoping with bloodhounds after 13 years
A western Kentucky mother is hoping that a bloodhound can track her daughter's scent 13 years after she disappeared from a beach along the Ohio River.
- Dept. of Highways engineer's career leaves imprint on landscape
HOPKINSVILLE - Ted Merryman, one of the supervising engineers of Interstate 24's construction through Christian County, plans to retire from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's Department of Highways at the ...
- Kidstuff: 5-year-old get a little too much help on list
While they were all on their way to visit Santa Claus, grandmother Pat Denton observed that her son and daughter-in-law, Chad and Stacy Denton, had several suggestions for their 5-year-old daughter, Meredith, ...
- Henderson OKs major riverfront contract
By FRANK BOYETT / Gleaner staff /831-8342 a fboyett@thegleaner.com Originally published 09:31 a.m., December 24, 2008 Updated 09:31 a.m., December 24, 2008 The Henderson City Commission approved a major ...
- Police say man's death doesn't look violent
A 59-year-old Henderson man was found dead Monday in the parking lot of the fourplex apartment building where he lived on Wathen Lane.
- DUI Suspect Dies In Jail
A western Kentucky man arrested on a drunken-driving charge was found unresponsive in a holding cell and later was pronounced dead at a hospital.
- Death Investigation in Henderson County
On Saturday, December 20, 2008 at approximately 5:56a.m., Kentucky State Police Post 16 Henderson received a call regarding a deceased male at the Methodist Hospital in Henderson.
- Inmate Pronounced Dead After Being Found Unresponsive
Darrel E. Sights, 47 of Henderson, was pronounced dead early Saturday morning at the Methodist Hospital in Henderson Kentucky.
- Woman, Child Found Dead In Evansville Motel Room
Police said the deaths of a woman and her young daughter in an Evansville motel room appear to be murder-suicide. Authorities identified the victims Friday as 41-year-old Carol C. Thomas of Henderson, Ky., and ...
- Christmas Care Day
It's the time of year when shoppers line up outside stores, but Thursday, people will be lining up outside one Henderson business for a different reason.
- Oil prices slip below $45; local gas prices up 20 cents
By The Associated Press Originally published 07:55 a.m., December 12, 2008 Updated 09:15 a.m., December 12, 2008 Local Gas Prices Check to see what the lowest gas prices are around Evansville and Henderson.
- Mobile Meth Lab Discovered During Traffic Stop
A Henderson teenager is in jail after a routine police traffic stop uncovers a mobile meth lab.
- Warming idea: Local students make, donate quilts to Henderson Police Department
Brandon Fitzgerrel is a 17-year-old senior with a talent for turning an otherwise quiet classroom into a contained area of giggles.
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City DescriptionHenderson is a city in Henderson County, Kentucky, United States, along the Ohio River in the western part of the state. The population was 27,373 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Evansville, Indiana metropolitan area.
The city has been called home by ornithologist, naturalist, and painter John James Audubon as well as blues legend W.C. Handy. For more than 100 years the city has been home to the Southern Cherokee Nation.
Henderson has its roots in an small, block-wide strip of land high above the Ohio River, currently the site of Audubon Mill Park (directly south of the city's riverfront boat dock). A frontier village on this site was called "Red Banks" by the native Americans who originally lived and hunted there, because of the reddish clay soil on the tall banks of the river. In the early and mid 1790's, Red Banks featured a tavern and was home to several white settlers.
Henderson's roots lie in a scheme by a North Carolina judge, Colonel Richard Henderson, and a group of investors who sought to buy much of modern-day Kentucky and Tennessee from 1,200 Cherokee Indians gathered at Sycamore Shoals (located at present day Elizabethton, Tennessee) and later resell these ... Read MoreCity Contained By:City Contains:- Henderson Community College
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