Daily editionTuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Good morning, Henderson.
The 5AM Henderson Team
Here’s your local news at a glance for Tuesday, the 3rd of November.
Community
The City of Henderson is launching the Spirit of Henderson program to help residents pay utility bills; eligible residents (hospitalization, injury or disability, job change, recent family death, or $100+ bill fluctuation) can sign up at a kiosk or the city clerk's office through Nov. 30, and donors can pick ornament amounts from a Municipal Building tree and pay (Dec. 1–Jan. 1).
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Culture
HCPL opened a special exhibit on Nov. 2 that traces Henderson's industrial dressmaking era and tells the story of C.B.S. Dress Co., founded in a former tobacco plant (Third and Water) by Ernestine Seitz and partners and once employing about 300 people before closing in 1979.
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History
Tobacco drove Henderson’s 19th-century boom and by the late 1800s the city hosted the world’s largest strip-stem market built on enslaved and low-paid labor; the industry dwindled through the 20th century and the Soaper Warehouse closed (1984), leaving brick warehouses that could be repurposed for business and heritage tourism.
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