Cow Calling Contest
Page 2 of Daily Record, published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Saturday, September 8th, 1928 The Lawrence County Fair closed September...
Lawrence Lore
Aug 26, 20241 min read
Let's Go To the Fair
For many of you readers, August meant going to Fair in Lawrence County. It was the same for residents 145 years ago. If you have...
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Aug 23, 20243 min read
Gibson, Bishop and O'Grady
The Town and Country Realty Company opened in its newly redecorated office at 1205 State St in the location formerly occupied by the Bill...
Lawrence Lore
Aug 22, 20241 min read
Keep Local History Alive!
Lawrence County Illinois History! It’s YOUR history! Help us preserve it! The Lawrence County Illinois Historical Society (LCHS) was...
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Aug 21, 20241 min read
A Patent from Pinkstaff
Around Christmas 2022 the researchers here at the Historical Society were contacted about a patent by Bowman and Hughes, inventors from...
Lawrence Lore
Aug 20, 20242 min read
Drexal Young 1907-1984
Drexal Young was born October 15, 1907 in Lawrenceville, Illinois, to Elijah and Clementine Rebecca Corrie Young. He married Clara Belle...
Lawrence Lore
Aug 19, 20242 min read
Whipping Post
At the jury term of 1827 the whipping post was yet in use in Lawrence County, and James Langley and Levi Rush were each sentenced to...
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Aug 16, 20241 min read
Happenings in January 1879
Rural Republican January 10 1879 Man’s inhumanity to rabbits made Christmas dinners for thousands. On New Year’s Eve Mr. and Mrs. Miller,...
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Aug 15, 20245 min read
Curley Johnson
“The days are getting shorter.” This was the last sentence Ellis “Curley” Johnson of Bridgeport said to his wife Frances before he died...
Lawrence Lore
Aug 14, 20241 min read
Confederate Soldier
Prior Harvey was born in 1836 in Grainger County Tennessee to Thomas and Maria Harvey. He married Delphia Hipsher in Grainger on July 17,...
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Aug 13, 20241 min read