

Alligators in Lawrenceville
One of the newspaper researchers found the following: Lawrence County News March 5, 1908 “Dr H V Lewis brought six alligators home with...

Lawrence Lore
Nov 20, 20231 min read
Betting on the Election
One of our researchers found that news of Lawrence County was often printed in the Robinson Constitution newspaper. Here is what he...

Lawrence Lore
Nov 7, 20232 min read


Suttle Employees
Photo taken May 1937 of the Suttle Employees Seated in the front row: Steve Newlin, Tom Arnold, Henry Rhinehart, Walt Vinsel, Roger...

Lawrence Lore
Nov 1, 20231 min read


Advertising Disaster for Watchmaker
On December 5, 1918, D. Galbreath moved his family from Johnson City to Sumner having leased the D. D. Emerick home. He then advertised...

Lawrence Lore
Oct 16, 20231 min read


Barbers in the County
In an earlier post we asked for memories of barbers in the county. Rodney Stevens said that the barber on 12th Street in the basement...

Lawrence Lore
Oct 5, 20233 min read


Sumner Elevator
We asked George Zwilling to write a history of the Sumner Elevatorand today we are proud to publish it with some photographs. Thanks to...

Lawrence Lore
Sep 26, 20233 min read
Barbers of Lawrence County
One of our readers had a cutting edge idea.. . . An article on the history of Lawrence County Barbers. When was he growing up in...

Lawrence Lore
Sep 13, 20233 min read


1983 Golden Rule Employees
Top left is Libby Petts holding Kyle Mallory, son of Becky Beam, and Jessica Petts at left bottom of photo Top right is Karen Bearden and...

Lawrence Lore
Sep 8, 20231 min read


Old National Bank
Photograph of the Lobby of Old National Bank, now the site of our History Center on the square in Lawrenceville. OLd National Bank...

Lawrence Lore
Aug 24, 20231 min read


J. B. Grogan: Everybody's Cleaner
When we were organizing the Golden Rule magazines several weeks ago, we ran across this photo. The sign was left intact in the building...

Lawrence Lore
Aug 9, 20231 min read

