(This history column first appeared in the April print edition of the Hendersonian.)
The Henderson City Council fired the entire police force a month before it opened its first city hall in 1873.
E.L Starling, in his 1887 history of the county, doesn’t address those turbulent times for the police although he describes the process of building the “station house.” It was called that initially because one of its main functions was to house the police department…