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Henderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 46,250.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/21/21101.html )〕 The county seat is Henderson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was formed in 1798 and named for Colonel Richard Henderson who purchased of land from the Cherokee Indians, part of which would eventually make up of the county. Henderson County is part of the Evansville, IN-KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Henderson County was established in 1798, using land taken from Christian County. Unfortunately, the historic 1843 courthouse was torn down in the 1960s to make way for a new building. A workplace shooting occurred at an Atlantis Plastics factory in Henderson, Kentucky, United States on June 25, 2008. The gunman, 25-year-old Wesley Neal Higdon, shot and killed five people and critically injured a sixth, before taking his own life.〔 〕 The mass murder is the worst in the history of Henderson County, surpassing the triple homicides that took place in 1799 and 1955. An area known as "Green River Island" is part of Kentucky, even though is on the Indiana side of the Ohio River. An extension of the island was the subject of ''Handly's Lessee v. Anthony'', a U.S. Supreme Court case in 1820.〔''Handly's Lessee v. Anthony'', 〕 The Ellis Park Race Course is located there. Once home to part of the Cherokee Nation, members of the Southern Cherokee were welcomed to Kentucky in 1893 and recognized as an Indian tribe by Governor John Young Brown. The (Southern Cherokee ) still live in Henderson County. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henderson County, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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