Edmund L. Starling's
History of Henderson County, Kentucky


History of Henderson County, Kentucky by Edmund L. Starling
published in 1887
pps. 840
public domain material

POSTED BEGINNING 3-10-2004

Colonel Richard Henderson's land purchase Formation of Henderson County Early Outlaws First Settlers Wild Game, Birds and Animals
Second Colony Great Revival of 1797 Establishment and Organization First Road First Tavern Rates
First Emancipation First School First Grist Mill Hannah Dunn, wife of Captain Dunn EEarly Marriages

 

Slavery Trial of the Harpe Women Tobacco First Felony "Cold Friday"
Audubon Cordelling Mistake in the Census Contempt of Court A Primitive Tramp
Killed by Wolves The Cold Plague
&
First Convict to Penitentiary
"THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS" First Counterfeiter A Boom

some good reading on the history of the Commonwealth Bank

MISC.
Murders
CITY OFFICIALS Henderson Newspapers A Bloody Legend.

Sketch of Big and Little Harpe.

Murder of Lemuel Cheaney

by Charles C. Carr.

Outlawry.

The whipping of Cora Walker

COUNTY OFFICIALS COUNTY JUSTICES

FROM 1799 TO 1887

   
         


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