Historic Evansville

Howell, IN

Howell was a railroad town on the "far west" side centered around the old Howell Train Yard. It was a separate town from Evansville and named after Lee Howell, the local general freight agent for the L&N Railroad. s barker formerly front st? hotels restaurants and saloons for out of towners engineers supposedly built on eninge (dearborn) and conductors signal st Howell - tekoppel koressel RR barker howell park stinson broadway It was annexed by the city in 1916 HOwell school and bank. library and churches howell train yards featured press 8-26-1981

Railroad town on far west side, annexed 1916 named after lee howell local general freight agent for the L&N city laid out 1885 and shops opened 1889 with not more than half a dozen homes town boomed and by 1300 near turn of century 75% land owned by employees of shops Streets were renamed c1900 using an ABC convention barker actually crossed rr to connect to henderson rd

Old Name	New Name	Notes
Howell Ave	Arlington St	later Ave
Lower Mt Vernon Rd	Broadway St	later Ave
Engine St	Cambridge St
Electric St	Dearborn St
Signal St	Emerson St
Vulcan St	Fremont St
Railroad St	Garland St	Now gone, vacated for RR tracks
Barker Ave	-	Used to cross RR tracks and connect to Henderson Rd
Daisy Ave	Cumberland Ave
Rose Ave	Delmar Ave
Lilly Ave	Ewing Ave
Stinson Ave	Fayette St	Later renamed back to Stinson
Violet Ave	Glendale Ave

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Research Notes

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Streets first appear in 1891 cd

Howell 1899 Atlas - with original names

Sanborn 1910 has new names