Past

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

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

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