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Some Lawrence County Inventors
Do you like recliners? Do you have a cattle guard to keep your cattle from getting out and ensuring that you don’t have to open a gate every time you come home? You have Lawrence County inventors to thank for … Continue reading
The Lost Reef
Have you ever found a cool fossil in Lawrence County? I found this Acrocyathus fossil in western Lawrence County. The place where I found it was once covered by an immense colony of rugose coral. It thrived beneath the waters … Continue reading
The First Murray Bicycle Built in Lawrenceburg
On this day in 1956, the first bicycle rolled off the line at Murray Ohio’s Lawrenceburg plant, while concrete trucks were still pouring the floor in the back part of the building. That first bicycle was a “bright red Western … Continue reading
The Military Career of Corporal Silas Smith, USCT
On this day in 1865, one Lawrence County man was promoted to corporal in his artillery unit. Little did he know that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for his country in less than a year’s time. Born free prior … Continue reading
Battery F Comes Home to Lawrence County
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, many of Lawrence County’s men went to the trenches for Uncle Sam. Several local men joined an all-volunteer regiment of field artillery that was recruited by former U.S. Senator Luke … Continue reading
The Great Lawrenceburg Bacon Raid of 1862
On this day in 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers met in Lawrenceburg in one of the first recorded fights of the Civil War in Lawrence County…and it ended with Union troops hauling off thousands of pounds of captured bacon. On … Continue reading
The Excavation of the Danley Mound
Did you know that there was a band of snail-eating Native Americans living between modern West Point and Iron City a few centuries before the birth of Christ? On March 25, 1962, three archaeologists conducted the first-ever archaeological dig in … Continue reading
Lawrence County and the Vote to Abolish Slavery
Today is the 160th anniversary of the end of slavery in Tennessee. And, according to one source, the men of Lawrence County who turned out to vote for its abolition had to arm themselves at the ballot box for fear … Continue reading
The Re-establishing: Lawrence County’s Wartime Unionist Government
Our county government was founded on October 21, 1817 by the state legislature. But did you know that it was re-founded 47 years later? On February 13, 1864, a group of local Union sympathizers met at the courthouse in Lawrenceburg … Continue reading
A New Birth of Freedom: Lawrence County’s USCT Soldiers
They are perhaps Lawrence County’s most-overlooked veterans. Indeed, the very names of these men, not to mention the sacrifices they made in service to their country, have been practically forgotten by most local people. Most of us probably learned in … Continue reading
Lawrence County History Trivia 