Lawrence Lore
Mar 13, 20240 min read
Stamping out Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the early 20th century. Doctors were treating this dreaded disease at special hospitals...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 12, 20242 min read
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...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 7, 20241 min read
Research Library
Mrs. Irene Black’s lifetime collection of local history and genealogy material was originally located in Bridgeport, Illinois, but in...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 6, 20241 min read
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...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 5, 20241 min read
"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.
Lawrence Lore
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 1, 20242 min read
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...
Lawrence Lore
Feb 29, 20241 min read