Don't forget the prgram tonight 7:00 Secret Service The snow was two inches deep in Lawrence County in the last week of March in 1880....

Jacob Gowen, an African American, was born in Henry County Virginia in the year 1762, but his birth records were lost according to him by...

The truth is rarely pretty or polite according to the Illinois State Archives researchers who oversaw the development of the Servitude...

EVery year near Halloween the researchers at the Historical Society receive numerous requests for information about the "haunted high...

Researchers don't know everyone in this popular Lawrence County Band of the 1920s but they have identified Arthur "Bud" Smith on the...

On July 14, 1893, in the law-abiding county of Lawrence, in which Lincoln visited and which claimed the earliest school integration in...

Duke William Anderson, born in Lawrence County, Illinois (1812-1873) was a Baptist Minister, Church Founder, Educator, and Underground...

James Denson/Dunson was born a slave about 1825 in Russell County, Virginia. His last owner was Alex Preston of Abingdon Virginia. One...

According to an article written by Ruth Anderson Walker of the Northern Indiana Center for History for an unnamed newspaper May 7, 1995,...

Jesse Anderson , a free African American, owned a farm about 2 ½ miles southwest of Fort Allison erected near Russellville Lawrence...