

The Game of 15 vs 20
Don't forget the prgram tonight 7:00 Secret Service The snow was two inches deep in Lawrence County in the last week of March in 1880....

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Mar 245 min read
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Black Revolutionary War Soldier
Jacob Gowen, an African American, was born in Henry County Virginia in the year 1762, but his birth records were lost according to him by...

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Feb 204 min read
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Boo!
EVery year near Halloween the researchers at the Historical Society receive numerous requests for information about the "haunted high...

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Oct 31, 20242 min read
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Music Makers
Researchers don't know everyone in this popular Lawrence County Band of the 1920s but they have identified Arthur "Bud" Smith on the...

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Oct 16, 20241 min read
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The Lynching
On July 14, 1893, in the law-abiding county of Lawrence, in which Lincoln visited and which claimed the earliest school integration in...

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Oct 14, 20246 min read
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Duke W Anderson
Duke William Anderson, born in Lawrence County, Illinois (1812-1873) was a Baptist Minister, Church Founder, Educator, and Underground...

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Sep 17, 20243 min read
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It Never Happened in Our County. . Yes it Did!
James Denson/Dunson was born a slave about 1825 in Russell County, Virginia. His last owner was Alex Preston of Abingdon Virginia. One...

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Sep 16, 20242 min read
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Ezekiel, Indian Boy
According to an article written by Ruth Anderson Walker of the Northern Indiana Center for History for an unnamed newspaper May 7, 1995,...

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Sep 13, 20242 min read
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Son Witnesses Murders
Jesse Anderson , a free African American, owned a farm about 2 ½ miles southwest of Fort Allison erected near Russellville Lawrence...

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Sep 10, 20242 min read
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