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city and the See also:county-seat of Henderson county, See also:Kentucky, U.S.A., on the S. See also:bank of the See also:Ohio See also:river, about 142 M. W.S.W. of See also:Louisville. Pop. (1890), 8835; (1900), 10,272, of whom 4029 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 11,452. It is served by the See also:Illinois Central, the Louisville & See also:Nashville, and the Louisville, Henderson & St. See also:Louis See also:railways, and has See also:direct communication by steamboat with Louisville, See also:Evansville, See also:Cairo, See also:Memphis and New See also:Orleans. Henderson is built on the high bank of the river, above the See also:flood level; the river is spanned here by a See also:fine See also:steel See also:bridge, designed by See also:George W. G. Ferris (1859-1896), the designer of the Ferris See also:Wheel. The city has a public See also:park of 8o acres and a See also:Carnegie library. It is situated in the midst of a region whose See also:soil is said to be the best in the See also:world for the raising of dark, heavy-fibred See also:tobacco, and is well adapted also for the growing of See also:fruit, See also:wheat and See also:Indian See also:corn. Bituminous See also:coal is obtained from the surrounding See also:country.

Immense quantities of stemmed tobacco are shipped from here, and the city is an important See also:

market for Indian corn. The manufactures of the city include See also:cotton and woollen goods, hominy, See also:meal, See also:flour, tobacco and cigars, carriages, baskets, chairs and other See also:furniture, bricks, See also:ice, See also:whisky and See also:beer; the value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $1,365,120. The See also:municipality owns and operates its See also:water See also:works, See also:gas plant and electric-See also:lighting plant. Henderson, named in See also:honour of See also:Richard Henderson (1734-1785), was settled as See also:early as 1784, was first known as Red See also:Banks, was laid out as a See also:town by Henderson's See also:company in 1797, was incorperated as a town in 1810, andwas first chartered as a city in 1854. The city boundary lines were extended in 1905 by the See also:annexation of See also:Audubon and Edgewood. Henderson was for some See also:time the See also:home of See also:John See also:James Audubon, the ornithologist.

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