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,...

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...