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

June 25th, 1880  Lots of folks around Lawrenceville had mumps.  Henry A Clubb was acting as postmaster during the illness of Nellie...

Dann M Norton has graciously agreed to allow me to post two of his blog articles about Betsey Reed.  They are both excellent and shed...

I found this essay that a little boy had written for the Lawrence County News in 1931 . (My computer kept wanting to auto correct all...

For those of you struggling with legal descriptions found in your ancestors’ old deeds: In 1802 Col. Mansfield, then surveyor of the...

Monday June 23 2025 7:00 pm James Brewer, Chairman of the Lawrence County Board, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the...

The Russellville post office was established in 1835. By 1870 a large frame building, part store-part post office, was located on Water...

In reviewing soldiers’ Civil War records, the researchers soon discovered that many from this county enlisted in other places. That came...

A person charged with a crime and sentenced to prison in Lawrence County in the 1880’s was sent to the State penitentiary in Chester...

News for the Lawrenceville and Vincennes newspapers June 18 1880 Robinson was going to have an old fashioned barbeque to celebrate the...