Even though the postcard below states that it is the Bridgeport Pavilion, we think the above dedication refers to the brick building at...

January 8, 1902 Sumner Press A Coroner’s inquest was held at the residence of E. P in southeast Christy township over the bodies of two...

Sumner in the 1900's was quite a booming metropolis. Business Advertisers in the Sumner Press May 1, 1902: · H F. Combs sold...

Daily Record February 17, 1931 George C. Armstrong, President of the Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce, received a telegram from...

The first court record in Lawrence County, dated June 4,1821, shows that Michael Stufflebeam and Benjamin Matthews were indicted for...

Sumner Press March 1883 “If Uncle Billy Moore will call at this office, we will give him the name and address of a charming young widow...

The Historical Society has an entire collection of yearbooks from the four high schools in the county, and some of the elementary schools...

The following "joke" was printed in the Daily Record the week of Jan 3-10,1945: Two George Field G.I.'s slightly the worse for a happy...

Readers, many of you will remember, (and hopefully enjoyed), the Smithsonian Traveling exhibit, Water Ways, in Lawrence County a few...

Restorations were recently completed on some of the Thomas Bell family headstones in Bell cemetery in Lukin Township as reported by...