[5] Tradition says that John James Audubon built the first house in this wooded wilderness, on what is now the northeast corner of Loeb and Shelby streets.

In an interview given in 1950, Ed Hare, a former city judge, reminisced about his old school, commenting that only the younger children attended because many were working in the mill at age nine.

Working conditions had improved by 1900 to such an extent that parents began demanding more education, and an addition was built to the school.

The board of education spent $2,675 for a church and lot on the southeast corner of Letcher and Clay streets and hired Spalding Trible as the architect of the new Audubon Grade School.

Sallie Smithhart operated Henderson's most notorious prostitution house on the south side at 534 Fagan Street.

One was kept in the safe and the other hidden in the bathroom, for the use of shady ladies in case they found themselves dealing with an unruly or hassling client.

Amelia Gabe said in her suit that for more than 10 years she had had to put up with the "lewd and lascivious conduct" and the "boisterous, profane, vulgar and obscene language" of people coming and going from Smithhart's business.

Night spots were run out of residential houses, around the streets of S Alves, Vine, Fagan, S Alvasia and more, offering alcoholic beverages, music, dancing, and gambling, and some locally owned business supported these operations.

Business owners found these brothels, as well as night club gambling spots, as another source of earning money without the frustration of tax.

This spot, being the home and party scene of small-time drug dealers and gang members, would soon bring problems with the law enforcement and community neighbors.