A light frost was visible on Friday April 9, 1880, when the newspaper was published. Michael O’Roarke was said to have raised the best...

Thank you to the Lawrence County Library for allowing the Historical Society to place a new exhibit in their lobby. Scattered around the...

Joseph Henry Worstell was born on September 18, 1843, to David Johnson and Naomi (Martin) Worstell in Clermont County, Ohio.   Joseph’s...

Are you interested in military history? Do you want to know if your ancestor served in the Civil War? Stop by our Open House and find...

Prior Harvey was born in 1836 in Grainger County Tennessee to Thomas and Maria Harvey. He married Delphia Hipsher in Grainger on July 17,...

Page  1 of The Vincennes Weekly Sun, published in Vincennes, Indiana on Saturday, September 13th, 1862 “Terrible Railroad Accident—Civil...

For those of you who use Find a Grave, you can now view John King’s virtual cemeteries of Civil War soldiers buried in Lawrence County....

April 12, 1861 South Carolina seceded from the Union. A week later President Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to enlist for 3 months. At...

CHARLES W. ACKMAN was born in the Blue Grass regions of Kentucky, in 1828.  In 1851 he came to this State by stage. After his first...

Several men from Lawrence County enlisted in Company I, 130th Regiment Illinois Infantry and took part in the following engagements: Port...