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Readers, for your enjoyment, here is a bit of Lawrence County’s religious history. This booklet belonged to Alta Alley of Deerfield, and contains the Lawrence County Baptist Association’s 1934 minutes from its annual meeting at Park Grove Baptist Church. Do … Continue reading →

Today (April 16) is the 17th anniversary of the ‘Forgotten F-5,’ so-called because the Nashville tornadoes of the same day overshadowed reports of the storm on major news networks. The storm that tore through Lawrence County on April 16, 1998 … Continue reading →

We wish to extend our condolences to the family of one of Lawrence County’s finest gentlemen, Coach Aaron McCroskey. Coach McCroskey passed away this morning. Coach McCroskey’s ministry as a teacher, coach, and pastor touched the lives of many local … Continue reading →

Our great Lawrence County teachers will appreciate this. Did you know that Lawrence County teachers have been attending teacher in-service programs for well over a century? And that they used to occur on Saturday mornings? And that they often required … Continue reading →

Have you ever found an arrowhead? Almost ninety years ago, one Lawrence Countian found an arrowhead with quite a tale to tell. According to the ‘Lawrence News,’ during the week of April 19, 1926, local man Webster Pearl went into … Continue reading →

For your enjoyment, here is a detailed 111-year-old map of Lawrence County. This soil survey map was created in 1904 by the United States Department of Agriculture. For the details of that survey, have a look at the official government … Continue reading →

Did you remember to set your clocks forward last night? You might be surprised to know that almost 4% of Lawrence County’s population chose not to. In fact, in some neighborhoods in northern Lawrence County right now, it’s still an … Continue reading →

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 →