Hendry County is a county in the Florida Heartland region of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,619, a 1.2% increase from 39,140 at the 2010 census. The county is majority-Hispanic or Latino. Its county seat is LaBelle.
Francis Asbury "Berry" Hendry was an American cattle rancher, politician in Florida, and served during the Third Seminole War, and the American Civil War in the Confederate States Army. Hendry was also a state senator for parts of Lee County, and Monroe County, as well as serving as a state representative for Lee County for six terms from 1893 to 1904. He was known by the nickname "Berry" and in later life as "Captain Hendry."
State Road 29 is a state highway that runs north–south through Southwest Florida. It begins in Carnestown and runs north to a point just south of Palmdale. A rural road, it runs mostly through uninhabited farmland in its northern half, and along wetlands in its southern half. The route previously continued south of Carnestown to Everglades City and Chokoloskee, which has since become County Road 29.
The Downtown LaBelle Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in LaBelle, Florida. The district is on the 300 Block of North Bridge Street. It contains 9 historic buildings.
The Old Hendry County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in LaBelle, Florida, located at the corner of Bridge Street and Hickpochee Avenue. It was designed in the Mediterranean Revival-Mission Revival styles by architect Edward Columbus Hosford. On November 8, 1990, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Old Martin County Court House, built in 1937, 12 years after the erection and organization of Martin County and to the south - Palm Beach County), is a historic Art Deco style of architecture courthouse building located at 80 Southeast Ocean Boulevard in the county seat and largest town of Stuart, Martin County, Florida.
The Caldwell Home Place is a historic house located at 160 Curry Street in LaBelle, Florida.
The Capt. F. Deane Duff House is a historic site in Clewiston, Florida. It is located at 151 West Del Monte Avenue. On January 30, 1998, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Scharnberg House is a historic site in Clewiston, Florida. It is located at 325 East Del Monte Avenue. On April 26, 1999, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The building was designed by Clark J. Lawrence, a West Palm Beach architect, and was built in 1927. According to Florida's Division of Historical Resources factsheet:
"J.B. Scharnberg was a German born engineer and inventor who worked for the United States Sugar Corporation and held numerous patents for machinery innovations. Scharnberg occupied the house from 1931 to his death in 1940. At the time of his death Scharberg had developed the largest, most advanced sugar grinding mill in the world."
The Capt. Francis A. Hendry House is a historic residence, built in 1914 at 512 Fraser Street in LaBelle, Florida, United States. The frame vernacular house was built for Capt. Francis A. "Berry" Hendry, a military officer in the Cow Cavalry of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, the city of LaBelle's founder, and the county namesake. It is the only surviving building associated with Hendry in the county.
The Clewiston Historic Schools are two historic schools in Clewiston, Florida. They are located at 325 East Circle Drive and 475 East Osceola Avenue. On September 26, 1997, they were added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Dixie Crystal Theatre is a historic site in Clewiston, Hendry County, Florida. It is located at 100 East Sugarland Highway. It first opened in 1941. In 1998, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Roberts Ranch is a historic site in Immokalee, Florida. It is located at 1215 Roberts Avenue. On October 4, 2003, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The U.S. Naval Station in Key West, Florida, United States is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The Schultz Building, formerly the Atlantic National Bank Annex, is a historic building in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It was built between 1925 and 1926 for the Atlantic National Bank as an annex to the Atlantic National Bank Building, located immediately behind it. It stands at 118 West Adams Street, and was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1997 as part of the Downtown Jacksonville Multiple Property Submission.
The El Vernona Apartments-Broadway Apartments is a historic site in Sarasota, Florida. It is located at 1133 Fourth Street. On March 22, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hendry County, Florida.
LaBelle is a city in and the county seat of Hendry County, Florida, United States. The population was 4,966 at the 2020 census, up from 4,640 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Clewiston, FL Micropolitan Statistical Area (μSA).
La Belle Iron Works, also known as La Belle Cut Nail Works, was a historic factory complex and national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district included four contributing buildings; three Italianate style brick buildings dated to the founding of the company in 1852, and a tin plate mill built 1894–1897. After 1902, the buildings were combined under a single roof, although the truss systems date to different periods achieving the configuration visible today. When listed in 1997, it was known as the "La Belle Cut Nail Plant, The Largest in the World, Wheeling Corrugating Company, A Division of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation." The cut nail machinery still in use by La Belle dated to 1852 and the 1860s. The machinery at La Belle along with the different processes were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey team during the summer of 1990.
Mary Hayes Davis was an American writer, a newspaper editor and publisher, and the owner of several movie theaters. She is best known as the co-author of Chinese Fables and Folk Stories, which she wrote with Reverend Chow Leung, while based in Chicago. Published in 1908 and widely reprinted today, the compilation claimed to be “the first book of Chinese stories ever printed in English”. Between 1908 and 1912, Davis collected Native American folk tales from the Pima and Apache tribes in Oklahoma and Arizona, for a book she never completed. In the early 1920s, Davis moved to southwest Florida, where she published TheHendry County News, and later owned and operated a chain of seven movie theaters. In 1926, The Tampa Tribune called Davis "the heroine of LaBelle" for her courageous reporting of the lynching of Henry Patterson, despite threats of further mob violence. In 1928, The Hendry County News received the Florida Newspaper Association award for Best Community News Service. In 1998, the Dixie Crystal Theatre in Clewiston, which Davis had opened in 1941, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
