“The days are getting shorter.”  This was the last sentence Ellis “Curley” Johnson of Bridgeport said to his wife Frances before he died...

Prior Harvey was born in 1836 in Grainger County Tennessee to Thomas and Maria Harvey. He married Delphia Hipsher in Grainger on July 17,...

The Rural Republican occasionally published items that had occurred in the past probably to fill a blank space in the newspaper, or maybe...

Daily Record January 27 1942 No, these are not group pictures of victims of an air raid on a beauty shop.  They were made to demonstrate...

In an effort to raise money for the Bridgeport Little League Association, the organization sold tickets for a five-minute shopping spree...

Page  3 of The Weekly Western Sun, published in Vincennes, Indiana on Friday, March 28th, 1879 A Lawrenceville Tragedy Upon arriving in...

Edward Perry Fyffe was born in Fort Allison Illinois, during the Native American uprisings when the settlers were forced to inhabit the...

Amanda (Manda) L Price was born July 23, 1856, in Denison Twp, Lawence County Illinois to John Clayton and Lucinda (Potts) Price. She...

Have you found the Sign about the Dime Stores in Lawrenceville on the History Walk at Lawrenceville Park? Employees of the  Woolworth...