Seven years after the admission of Kentucky into the
Federal Union, Henderson County was formed of a part of Christian
County, and was the thirty-eighth county organized in the State, and
named in honor of Colonel Richard Henderson. Henderson County, at the
time of its formation, embraced all of that territory now embraced in
Henderson, Hopkins, Union and Webster Counties: Hopkins was taken from
Henderson in 1806, Union County in 1811, and Webster was formed in 1860,
of parts of Henderson, Hopkins and Union.
