Location: This information was located in storage at John James Audubon State Park Museum in October, 2001. Audubon Park is located at 2910 U. S. Highway 41 N.

This plaque was found in storage in 2001. However, in 2005 it was located on a limestone base near a bank in downtown Henderson. See the Bank link for a current picture.

This is one of Honig's first plaques. He dated it above his name in 1918. The plaque reads:
The first gold star in the nation's service flag. November 3, 1917. James Bethel Gresham, Evansville, Ind.

This plaque should be located near the Gresham home at Garvin Park in Evansville, Indiana.

This photo shows a plaque with a picture of Audubon and the mill. It reads:
Saw and grist mill erected here by John James Audubon in 1816, Henderson, KY. The original stones from the base of Audubon's Mill have been preserved and in 1932 built into this gateway by William T. Barret, Mayor of Henderson, KY. Tablet by Audubon Memorial Society.

The note on the right reads:
William Barret, while Mayor of Henderson, Ky, had this entrance erected at Audubon Mill Park. The mill burned March 13th, 1913. Was completely destroyed--The Gateway is built of the stone in the foundation of "The Audubon Saw and Grist Mill" in 1932.

The note at the bottom reads:
From George H. Honig, Sculptor of John James Audubon tablet 1810 - 1820. Erected by Mann Bros., May 14, - 1925.

There is also a letter from George as treasurer of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society. He marked out his printed address on Walnut Street in Evansville, and wrote 314 Merc. Bank Bldg. It reads:
Oct 12 - 1925.
Mrs. J. Oscar Clore
Historian Henderson Historical Society
Henderson, Ky.
My Dear Mrs. Clore:--
   I received your letter and it is with pleasure I grant your request which has been written out on a seperate sheet of paper.
   I think it so wonderful that henderson was the home of the great bird man.
Most Sincerely
George H. Honig

This article appeared in The Henderson journal, May 21, 1925. It has a picture of the Audubon plaque on the left and George's photo on the left. He signed the article on October 12, 1925. The article reads:
Henderson, Kentucky, Honors Audubon, The Famous Naturalist.
A Sculptured Bronze Memorial Tablet Erected.
On the Main Street side of Mann Bros. department store, Henderson, Ky., there is a new bronze memorial tablet, obtained at the instance of the Henderson County Historical Society, designed by George H. Honig, Evansville Sculptor, and generously erected by Mann Bros. It is in honor of John James Audubon, America's noted naturalist of the past century.

(Written for the Henderson journal by Young E. Allison, on the Editorial staff of the Louisville Courier Journal)

The women of the Historical Society were fortunate, indeed, in the choice of George H. Honig, of Evansville, to execute the Audubon placque so generously provided for by Mann Bros. The portrait medalion at the head of the tablet is a triumph of art both in spirit and execution. Those who have seen the original portrait, or its marvelous reproduction in line drawing, will recognize with a thrill that Mr. Honig has seized its very spirit of wild freedom and virile beauty and has called to life in bronze that which the painter saw in Audubon and fixed forever as the ideal of nature's own Forester. I have seen many memorial tablets, executed by many artists, but none exceeds Honig's Audubon in the wide and splendid sweep of its lines--lines so few that the very simplicity and meagreness of the means used astonishes with the multiplicity of the effects it produces. It is an art treasure Henderson should jealously guard. The name of Honig may yet add great prestige to the itinerary of art in the thing itself.

--The Henderson Journal, May 21, 1952