Don't forget to register for Thursday morning's opening program (November 6 10:00 at the History Center) featuring 'Stories from the Wardrobe: The Dresses and the Ladies who Wore Them', by Curator, Nancy King. Admission $10 Goodie bags will be provided.   Seating is limited to 25 people.  Reservations required and can be made by calling 908-208-2372. An article was published in the annual report of Chief of Engineers of the U.S. Army to the Secretary of War for the yea r 1893

Yesterday the post was about the number of cars sold in Lawrence County in the 1920s by A L Maxwell. Today we reveal who bought those...

Several years ago, one of our researchers , J King, found the following interesting article in a magazine described as the first...

Vincennes Sun Commercia l April 25th 1931 Shovel Excavating for Bridge Abutment Strikes Stone Slab of Old River Landing A buried story of...

Accidents Involving Trains    Samuel Eberett o f Washington, Indiana, substituting for Henry South as engineer for the B&O was seriously...

Vincennes Daily Commercial Aug 13, 1886 Jumped Off The Bridge Into The Middle Of The Wabash River. The Daring Leap Made By A Fugitive To...

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,...