

Born a Slave
Snap Dabbs William Henry ‘Snap’ Dabbs was born August 22, 1854, in Springfield Missouri before the Civil War according to his death...

Lawrence Lore
Aug 202 min read
Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, Has Lawrence County Roots
For those of you who missed the program last Monday at Pinkstaff, co-sponsored with Illinois Humanities, because of the rain, here is a...

Lawrence Lore
Aug 115 min read
Recruitment of Local Soldiers of Color-Civil War
In reviewing soldiers’ Civil War records, the researchers soon discovered that many from this county enlisted in other places. That came...

Lawrence Lore
Jun 196 min read


Little Village
Don't forget to attend the LHS play, “Voices from the Hanging” on TONIGHT Friday, May 23, 2025, at 7 p.m. in the LHS auditorium. (It's...

Lawrence Lore
May 234 min read


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....

Lawrence Lore
Mar 245 min read
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...

Lawrence Lore
Feb 204 min read


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

Lawrence Lore
Oct 31, 20242 min read


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...

Lawrence Lore
Oct 16, 20241 min read
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...

Lawrence Lore
Oct 14, 20246 min read



