Starling's History of Henderson

By Edmund L. Starling

Starling's History comprises of history surrounding the county and city, precincts, education, churches, secret societies, leading enterprises, sketches, recollections, and biographies of the living and the dead at the time of 1887.

Features a new complete 28 page surname index.  Approx. 6,600 entries.  Over 1,400 different surnames.

 

Early Explorers & Settlers
pg 2

Mound Builders
pgs 25-26
Early Outlaws
pg 26
Early Settlers
pgs 26-27
The First Settlers
pg 27
A Face of the Country
pgs 27-28
Wild Game, Birds & Animals
pg 28
Second Colony
pgs 29-30
Salt
pgs 30-31
Revival of 1797
pg 35
PioneerTrails
pgs 37 - 38
Establishment & Organization of Henderson Co
pgs 47-50

Rather Indefinite
pgs 50-51

Smith's Ferry Road
pgs 54-55
First Grist Mill
pg 97

Hannah Dunn
pgs 97-98

Queer Receipts
pg 98
Early Marriages
pgs 98-99
Cheap Land
pg 99
Youthful Weddings
pg 99
Slavery
pgs 99-100
Whip Sawing
pg 122
Morals of the People
pg 122
Seminary Lands
pg 123
Cold Friday
pg 123
Audubon
pgs 123-124

Early Henderson Streets
pg 124

The Cold Plague
pg 142
Aggravated Fever
pg 160
Milk Sickness
pg 165
The Cholera
pgs 166-167
A Railroad Curiosity
pg 167
Malaria
pg 169
     
Tobacco Interest
pgs 515-516
Tobacco Manufacturers
pg 516-517
Distilling
pgs 517-518
Murder of James E. Rankin
pgs 456, 547-557

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