AUDUBON.
Mr. Collins, in a short biographical sketch of the life
of the renowned ornithologist, John J. Audubon, places his arrival in
Henderson during 1807, but Mrs. Audubon, in her book of his life, places
it during the year 1812. From the most reliable testimony attainable, it
is most probably that his arrival dates from 1810 or 1812. On December 22,
1813, he purchased from General Samuel Hopkins, agent of Richard Henderson
& Co., lots Nos. 95 and 06, half of the square lying on the west side of
Third Street, between Green and Elm. On the third of September, 1814, he
purchased lots Nos. 91 and 92, half of the square lying on the west side
of Second Street, between Green and Elm.
History of Henderson County, Kentucky
by Edmund L. Starling
p. 123
published in 1887
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