About 30-45 minutes north of Raleigh, Henderson, North Carolina is a small rural town that has some interesting history. The first settlers’ residence was built in what is now Henderson in 1785 by Samuel Reavis. Samual Reavis called his farm “Lonesome Valley”. It is thought that that name was chosen because of the area. Samual had a son, Lewis, who opened a store close to the stagecoach road in 1811. He began to see an increase of settlers and the beginning of a city.
Because of the completion of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad in 1835, the area's economic development took off. At a cookout during that year organized by some local settlers, it was decided the new city would be called Henderson. Henderson was chosen because they wanted to name it after Lewis Reavis’ good friend, Judge Leonard Henderson. It became official in January of 1841 with a charter by the N. C. General Assembly.
In 1837, many businesses began popping up along today's Garnett Street because of the railroad. Local land owners gave tracts of land to the railroad upon which the railroad would build warehousing and shipping facilities. The tobacco industry boomed and flourished in the area under the leadership of businessman D.Y. Cooper and others. Because of this, Henderson became a tobacco market in 1872.
By 1880, Henderson was comprised of a block of brick buildings. The were five tobacco factories, three warehouses, three cotton gins, roughly 20 other mercantile stores and two newspapers.
Of course, every great town has a devastating fire at some point. Devastating fires occurred along Garnett Street in 1870 and 1885 basically demolishing most of the commercial district structures, because the majority were constructed of wood. Because of the quickly growing population and their need for work, the burned structures were rebuilt within a year each time. The threat of fire was a major factor in the importation of bricks, stone and cast iron into the area.
Though Henderson has historically relied heavily on the tobacco, cotton and textile industries for jobs and economic growth, in recent years the retail market has been one of its major growth sectors. Unfortunately, with the struggling economy, Henderson has been hit hard because of its retail, textile, and tobacco businesses. However, Henderson continues to be an attractive location to businesses, such as our fence company.
In April 1963, the entire town of Franklinton was endangered by a huge wildfire which consumed nearly 10,000 acres of woods and destroyed a few homes outside of town. Another wild fire occurred in February 2008 covering a portion of the same area, but was only 1,000 acres.
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