The Radium Girls
Research in Lawrence County newspapers found articles about the discovery of radium. In the early 1900s, there were also advertisements...
Lawrence Lore
Sep 20, 20242 min read
They’s all the feet I’ve got!
We do not have digitized county newspapers for March 1879-August 1879 so the researchers had to look for local news in the Vincennes and...
Lawrence Lore
Sep 19, 20246 min read
Royalty 50 Years Ago
In September 1974, the Red Hill football squad chose the Homecoming Queen candidates, one of whom would reign over the 1974 Homecoming....
Lawrence Lore
Sep 18, 20241 min read
Duke W Anderson
Duke William Anderson, born in Lawrence County, Illinois (1812-1873) was a Baptist Minister, Church Founder, Educator, and Underground...
Lawrence Lore
Sep 17, 20243 min read
It Never Happened in Our County. . Yes it Did!
James Denson/Dunson was born a slave about 1825 in Russell County, Virginia. His last owner was Alex Preston of Abingdon Virginia. One...
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Sep 16, 20242 min read
Plan on Attending: October 5 2024
The History center will be open too with new exhibits. Stop by there on the square to buy a yearbook or check out our other books for...
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Sep 14, 20241 min read
Ezekiel, Indian Boy
According to an article written by Ruth Anderson Walker of the Northern Indiana Center for History for an unnamed newspaper May 7, 1995,...
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Sep 13, 20242 min read
Pete: First Motorcycle Cop
Stanley Berget Vandament, better known as Pete , was born January 22, 1888, in Lawrenceville, Illinois, to Burgett and Belle Vandament ....
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Sep 12, 20243 min read
Bridgeport 1912
These maps show what Bridgeport looked like in 1912.
Lawrence Lore
Sep 11, 20241 min read
Son Witnesses Murders
Jesse Anderson , a free African American, owned a farm about 2 ½ miles southwest of Fort Allison erected near Russellville Lawrence...
Lawrence Lore
Sep 10, 20242 min read