Author Archives: Clint

By Clint Alley Lawrence County’s Changing Borders You may have seen ‘How the States Got Their Shapes,’ but have you ever thought about how our county got its unique shape? And did you know that Lawrence used to share a … Continue reading →

By Clint Alley A Crockettesque Town There is no escaping it if you grew up in Lawrenceburg. The town has a school, a theater, a street, a cinema, a state park, a motel, a hospital, a waterfall, a festival, a … Continue reading →

By Clint Alley Lawrence County has 13 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. To introduce you to the history of these properties, I will publish a series of short articles about each place, using information from the … Continue reading →

By Clint Alley 10.  We have a community named after a plow…only spelled backwards. The community of Revilo is in southeastern Lawrence County. Around the turn of the 20th century, the residents of the community had built a new school, … Continue reading →

Caleb Davis: A Unionist Black Sheep in Civil War Lawrenceburg By Clint Alley A County Divided Not all Lawrence Countians supported the cause of the Confederacy during the Civil War. For a variety of reasons, many native southerners chose to … Continue reading →

Happy Valentine’s Day! What was the only force powerful enough to cause David Crockett to sell his gun? The answer, of course, is love! While we may not think of the rough-and-ready frontiersman and Lawrence County founding father as a … Continue reading →

Numbers do, indeed, tell a story. And the story of Lawrence County’s first century is that of a place finding its identity. As this graph shows, population growth in the county’s first sixty years was slow and difficult. The major … Continue reading →