None of Your Business
HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS: "NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" The Lawrence County Historical Society will present a special program at its next...
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Nov 27, 20221 min read
None of Your Business
For two hundred years businesses have flourished around the Lawrenceville Square. The passage of time has seen many changes in property...
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Nov 25, 20221 min read
Abe's Cow, Daphne
The following poem was written by Martin Conrad Pinkstaff, who worked at the gas station in Gordon, Illinois. He had been interviewed by...
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Nov 16, 20222 min read
Child's Hand Car
Look for the above Child's Hand Car in our Vintage Toy Exhibit at the History Center. The researchers found an ad for a similar riding...
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Nov 14, 20221 min read
Magdalene Fern (Angle) Fleckenstein
Written May 2022 by Julia Randall Most everyone has looked at something old at one time and thought If that item could “talk,” I wonder...
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Nov 11, 20223 min read
Movers and Shakers
From a book about the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, founded in 1817, John K discovered some interesting black history...
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Nov 9, 20223 min read
"Bury me under an old oak tree.."
From a copy of letter received from Sarah Gaddey Ridgley by Vera Beard Kirham in 1941. Researchers believe that the grandfather referred...
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Nov 7, 20222 min read
One Hundred Years Later...
These three wind-up toys are part of our new toy exhibit, Toys from the Attic. They are all made by the Marx Toy Company in New York city...
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Nov 4, 20221 min read
Aircraft Collision 1945 George Field
(Permission granted to publish by K Edmondson who was in contact with Doug Woodbury’s nephew.) Douglas C. Woodbury was California-cool,...
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Nov 3, 20225 min read
1950s Handmade Child's Tractor
Charles, the oldest son of Harry (Cappy) and Blanch Stansfield, was born April 15, 1925, and lived in Lawrenceville until enlisting in...
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Nov 1, 20221 min read