Hendersonville, North Carolina
Hendersonville, North Carolina Location of Hendersonville, North Carolina Location of Hendersonville, North Carolina State North Carolina Hendersonville is a town/city in Henderson County, North Carolina United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Henderson County. Like the county, the town/city is titled for 19th-century North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Leonard Henderson. Dating to shortly after the beginning of Henderson County in 1838, Hendersonville is traditionally known as "The City of Four Seasons".
The town has a well-preserved Main Street and adjoining downtown areas with many restaurants, antique shops and boutiques in buildings that homed key small-town business until the mid-1980s.
There are historic neighborhoods outside the Main Street corridor including the 5th Avenue neighborhood on the city's west side and the Druid Hills neighborhood north of downtown.
Depressed areas are found along the city's east side, but redevelopment accomplishments are underway in the historic commercial precinct along 7th Avenue East.
The architectural focus of the downtown region is the Historic Henderson County Courthouse, instead of in 1905 and completely renovated in 2008.
The town/city is also home to the newly restored City Hall (erected 1924) and the undivided Henderson County Courthouse (1995).
High schools in the town/city include West Henderson High School, Hendersonville High School, North Henderson High School, and East Henderson High School.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.0 square miles (16 km2), of which, 6.0 square miles (16 km2) of it is territory and 0.17% is water.
Henderson County is positioned in the southern mountain peaks of Western North Carolina along the Eastern Escarpment.
The biggest street festival of the Hendersonville calendar is the annual North Carolina Apple Festival, culminating in the Apple Parade that regularly draws up to 50,000 spectators.
A tradition of the Henderson County locals is the Falling of the Leaf celebration.
First in the sights to visit listed by the AAA is the Mineral and Lapidary Museum of Henderson County, positioned at 400 North Main Street in downtown Hendersonville.
The same building is home to the Henderson County Genealogical and Historical Society.
Down the road at 318 North Main Street is Hands On!, a children's exhibition of "educational exhibits that stimulate the imagination and persuade learning in a fun, safe, 'hands-on' surrounding." The Henderson County Heritage Museum, a 1905 county courthouse featuring a loggia of county-wide Carolina history, is further down Main Street at One Historic Courthouse Square.
It sits in the heart of the Main Street Historic District.
To the east of Main Street is the 1902-16 Hendersonville Rail Road Station, at 7th Avenue and Maple Street in the Seventh Avenue Depot District.
North of Main Street is the Historic Johnson Farm at 3346 Haywood Road.
The Western North Carolina Air Museum, featuring aircraft s of a bygone era, is near the small Hendersonville Airport at the corner of Gilbert Street and Brooklyn Avenue between Hendersonville and Flat Rock.
Five miles west of downtown Hendersonville is Jump Off Rock up on Jump Off Mountain.
For additional sites, see the National Register of Historic Places listings in Henderson County, North Carolina.
In addition to the Henderson County Courthouse, Historic Johnson Farm, Main Street Historic District, Oakdale Cemetery, and Seventh Avenue Depot District, the Aloah Hotel, The Cedars, Chewning House, Clarke-Hobbs-Davidson House, Cold Spring Park Historic District, Mary Mills Coxe House, Druid Hills Historic District, Grey Hosiery Mill, Hyman Heights-Mount Royal Historic District, Kanuga Lake Historic District, King-Waldrop House, Lenox Park Historic District, Reese House, Clough H.
Rice House, Smith-Williams-Durham Boarding House, Erle Stillwell House, Erle Stillwell House II, The Waverly, and West Side Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Washington Street in downtown Hendersonville in 2012.
[Hannah Flanagan's ] is a prominent pub and eatery in Hendersonville being open for over twenty years.
Christoph Sanders (born 1988), actor, stars in ABC's Last Man Standing, interval up in Hendersonville Sam Gash (born 1969), experienced football player, born in Hendersonville Tiger Greene (born 1962), experienced football player, born in Hendersonville Jim Lampley (born 1949), sportscaster, news anchor, producer, restaurant owner, born in Hendersonville Kelly Mc - Gillis (born 1957), actress, Top Gun, Witness, resides in Hendersonville Robert Morgan (born 1944), poet, essayist, author, born in Hendersonville Mickey Marvin (1955-2017), experienced football player, born in Hendersonville William Dathan Holbert, serial killer, born in Hendersonville "National Register of Historic Places Listings".
"National Register of Historic Places Listings".
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Hendersonville (North Carolina).
Official website of Hendersonville, North Carolina Official website of Hendersonville Police, North Carolina Ewell Wesley Corn, Fine Artist, Born in Hendersonville, North Carolina Municipalities and communities of Henderson County, North Carolina, United States State of North Carolina
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