Vincennes Capital November 28, 1903: George Os­wald, a mussel digger, was arrested on a charge of intox­ication and along with him were...

The directors of the new Hotel Lawrence leased the building to Woodson Moss for five years at a yearly rental of $6,000. Mr. Moss had...

Russellville is the only town in Russell township. It covers a total area of .47 square miles, according to the 2010 census. In 2000 the...

Flight training was a dangerous operation. There were many planes in the air at once and they did a lot of night flying in all kinds of...

(We have combined two weeks of local news into one blog post –-May 28, 1880 and June 4, 1880. ) Twenty teams loaded with wheat from near...

From the Madding collection circa 1940s

Adam Corrie, concerned about the unrest in England after the French Revolution, sent his son, John, to America to purchase land. In...

Prior histories of Lawrence County state that Russellville began in 1809. The town of Russellville itself didn’t exist until 1835 but...

FUNERAL TOMORROW FOR PART-OWNER OF BARBEQUE RIG As reported by an Indiana paper on October 1, 1963, George Rice, 45, died from injuries...

David Foote, our correspondent from Crawford County, responded to the earlier blog about Jesse Dubois. Following the Pres. Lincoln and...