Dennis Stroughmatt entertained a full house at the May Meeting of the Historical Society. Not only was the program educational, it was...

The town of Russellville was named in honor of August, Andrew and Clement Russell, three brothers, from Kentucky who in 1835 built a...

This photo was taken in 1920 at the home of Ray Moore in St. Francisville, later occupied by Cozie Marcel. It was apparently some...

Birds, in Lawrence County Illinois, was founded in 1878 when John Bird Jr. (1817-1903) son of John Bird (1785-1850) donated land for the...

Members of the Bridgeport American Legion in the early 1950s. John Cassil is holding the flag on the left, and Robert Walsh is "third on...

Thanks to the Crews descendants for donating a beautiful 1858 coffin handle from the casket of Malinda Duke Warner Crews to LCHS. The...

Have you ever been to Lukin? I mean REALLY been to Lukin? Why not take a trip this weekend and see the cemeteries LCHS has adopted and...

Re-written from 1910 Lawrence County Illinois History and Biography page 663-664 Albert Crews was born in the Allison Township September...

The Bridgeport Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in October 1861, under the leadership of J. C. Pierce. The charter members beside...