Don't forget the Donn Grenda program tonight 7:00 at the History Center!!! The 104th 4th of July was celebrated at Bridgeport and Sumner...

A recent Facebook post noted that a fire had occurred in Bridgeport on Friday the 13 th June 1913 and several readers proclaimed they...

Are you tired of staying at home? Not finding anything to watch on TV?  Too hot to do anything outside? The Historical Society has some...

Recently, our researcher has been working on organizing our family files and binders (we are still in the A’s). The Adams’ family binder...

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

Mordecai Brown's passion for baseball was so great that even after his retirement from the major leagues he could not leave the game and...

Sumner was in full swing in Lawrence County the week of July 2, 1880.   Blackberries and cream were on tables. The potato bug was eating...

“Samuel Armor , 94, died August 25, 1937, at the County home (Poor Farm) near Bridgeport. Deceased was born in Kentucky March 12, 1842,...

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