July 16 1880   The moist and sultry atmosphere melted all the dignity of the city. Roasting ears were selling at $0.10 per dozen; the...

The Floating Palace The Spaulding and Rogers Circus Company aboard the renowned Floating Palace showboat made its inaugural appearance at...

As early as May 15, 1819, the Western Star , a newspaper printed in Vincennes, reported that Thomas Emison ran a keelboat for freight up...

June 1880: A runaway occurred three miles west of Lawrenceville in which three persons were pretty badly bruised.  They were L Gosnell,...

Previous Lawrence County researchers have stated that the first ferry was in operation before 1818 by a Mr. Lamphere near the junction of...

Two Killed and Six Injured in Worst Train Wreck in the History of Lawrenceville November 10, 1945 The most disastrous train wreck in the...

in 1939 Indian Refining Company decided they needed parking for their employees' cars.

We received a shoe box full of old snapshots and look what we found! C R Wallace on a vintage truck with a spare tire on the side and a...

If these boys are planning on running away, they are not going without a goodbye kiss from Mother. Photos from the Madding Collection.

Some would say I was born in an amazing time, August 8, 1936. The only amazing facts that I know are of my birth and that, that summer...