Monthly Archives: February 2015

Have you ever pictured the first company of Confederate soldiers leaving Lawrenceburg at the beginning of the Civil War in the spring of 1861? If you have, you probably imagined that they marched off to war beneath the first national … Continue reading →

For many years, the ‘Democrat-Union’ had a program known as the ‘Over-80 Club,’ where people who were over 80 years of age could get a free subscription to the paper for life if they submitted a brief autobiography. Most of … Continue reading →

Happy birthday to two Lawrence County churches! On this day in 1872, Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Loretto was founded. And on this day in 1896, First Baptist Church of Lawrenceburg was organized in the Opera House on the Lawrenceburg … Continue reading →

Bicycle and lawnmower manufacturer Murray Ohio was the largest local employer that our area has ever known. Practically everyone in Lawrence County had a relative who worked at the plant in its local five-decade history, and the plant’s presence in … Continue reading →