Lawrence Lore
- Mar 7
- 1 min
Supplies for Injured Soldiers
Several Civil War soldiers were treated in the hospitals in Evansville, Indiana. A card of thanks was published from the Evansville mayor...
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Lawrence Lore
- Mar 6
- 1 min
Research Library
Mrs. Irene Black’s lifetime collection of local history and genealogy material was originally located in Bridgeport, Illinois, but in...
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Lawrence Lore
- Mar 5
- 1 min
John Wayne and the Searchers
Some of you may have watched the John Wayne movie-- The Searchers --wherein a blonde blue-eyed young girl was kidnapped in Texas by the...
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Lawrence Lore
- Mar 4
- 1 min
"Car Barn" at Texaco
Car Barn or Fab Shop where pipefitters and sheet metal welders worked at Texaco. In the 1930s Texaco made thier own tank cars.
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Lawrence Lore
- Mar 1
- 2 min
First Woman Hanged
The only enforcement of the death penalty in Lawrence County, Illinois was that of Elizabeth Reed. She was however not a resident of...
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Lawrence Lore
- Feb 29
- 1 min
And the cup ran away from the plate. . .
Louis A. Leppke (1879-1966) of Omaha was something of an inventor, patenting the “Sav-Serve,” a combination serving plate and non-sliding...
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