Monthly Archives: September 2015

In Lawrence County’s early days, people convicted of petty theft were sometimes whipped in public as punishment. Crime and punishment were quite different in those days. Some of the most common offenses in Lawrence County’s first years were gambling and … Continue reading →

Are there eyeless fish swimming deep beneath Depot Street in Lawrenceburg? There certainly were in 1891. That October, future mayor of Lawrenceburg J.W. Garrett dug a well on some property he owned on Depot Street. At that time, there was … Continue reading →

Have you ever wondered where the name ‘Granddaddy Creek’ and ‘Granddaddy Road’ came from? We may never know for sure, but early Lawrence County newspaper writer W.P. Oliver had a fanciful explanation for it in 1906. That spring, Oliver (who … Continue reading →