"LOCAL WILDLIFE" TO BE TOPIC AT NEXT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING A program on local wildlife (the four-legged and feathered variety) will...

Thanks to the Lawrence County Public Library for funding a great project—the digitizing of twenty years of the Bridgeport Leader...

In the 1900 Presidential Election, Lawrence County voters cast 1961 votes for the Republican candidates, McKinley and Roosevelt, and 2021...

Penny Shaw, of J. D. Mullen Company, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Lawrence County Historical Society on Monday,...

Mrs. Irene Black’s lifetime collection of local history and genealogy material was originally located in Bridgeport, Illinois, but in...

Louis A. Leppke (1879-1966) of Omaha was something of an inventor, patenting the “Sav-Serve,” a combination serving plate and non-sliding...

The first railway charter granted by the Illinois General Assembly was to the Chicago and Vincennes Railroad in 1835. The demand for...

The Lawrence County Historical Society and the Illinois State Historical Society erected a historical marker on the north side of the...

Who are we? The Lawrence County Illinois Historical Society's mission is to systematically collect and preserve the county’s historical...

To all our Readers: From Everyone at the Lawrence County Illinois Historical Society