A person charged with a crime and sentenced to prison in Lawrence County in the 1880’s was sent to the State penitentiary in Chester...

News for the Lawrenceville and Vincennes newspapers June 18 1880 Robinson was going to have an old fashioned barbeque to celebrate the...

Mills Russellville like all other early towns, had a saw- and a grist-mill. As seen earlier in the history of the town, August, Andrew...

June 11 1880 Croquet parties were raging. Wheat harvest hands were in demand. The courthouse yard was a splendid place to pass a half day...

Russellville is the only town in Russell township. It covers a total area of .47 square miles, according to the 2010 census. In 2000 the...

(We have combined two weeks of local news into one blog post –-May 28, 1880 and June 4, 1880. ) Twenty teams loaded with wheat from near...

David Foote, our correspondent from Crawford County, responded to the earlier blog about Jesse Dubois. Following the Pres. Lincoln and...

We were informed that last week's news of 1880 had not been published so we post it here today. This is what your ancestors would have...

May 1880: William E Bond and Miss Dora A Taylor of Flat Rock were given a license to marry by the clerk of the Lawrence County.  Thereby...

The Rural Republican, published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Friday, May 14th, 1880 The rain in the middle of May 1880 made the wheat...