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Monthly Archives: July 2024
Fields of Faith at Mt. Ararat
At about 945 feet above sea level, Mt. Ararat Cemetery on Mt. Ararat Road north of Lawrenceburg is not so much on a mountain as it is on a low hill. But voices raised in sacred song once rang out … Continue reading
The Pension of James S. Finley
How many people do you think you could get to verify that you are a good person? One Lawrence County man got the signatures of 190 people! The reason? Civil War veteran drama. In the spring of 1906, 78-year-old James … Continue reading
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St. Mary’s Cemetery: A National Register Property
While all of Lawrence County’s cemeteries are historic to some degree, only one cemetery in Lawrence County is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. St. Mary’s Cemetery, five miles east of St. Joseph, on Gieske Road is the … Continue reading
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The Promise to Colonel Dobbins
July 1884 was windy in Lawrence County. Brief, loud summer storms raked the fields, watering the earth but bending and damaging corn stalks throughout the area. And on the 30th, in the midst of that stormy summer, one of the … Continue reading
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Lawrence County’s First Government
“A temporary government of our own…” Did you know that, before the city of Lawrenceburg even existed, there was once an independent and unauthorized government in operation in the area that would become Lawrence County? As can be seen in … Continue reading
Lawrence County History Trivia 