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Lawrenceburg’s Mysterious Cannonball
In 1956, a crew from the Lawrenceburg Street Department found something unusual buried beneath downtown Lawrenceburg. After the crew dug it up, foreman Ira Johnson examined it and determined that it was a cannonball. Beyond this, we know maddeningly little … Continue reading
William Hicks and the Struggles of Lawrence County’s Free People of Color
One Lawrence County man was taken to court in 1858 for the crime of…staying in Tennessee too long? Enslaved people who were freed before the Civil War or African-Americans who were born free were known as free people of color. … Continue reading
Armistice Day in West Point
Did you attend a Veterans Day parade or ceremony yesterday? If you did, you continued a century-old tradition in Lawrence County. Veterans Day is observed on November 11. It has been known as Veterans Day since 1954. Prior to that, … Continue reading
The Man Who Owned Three Square Miles of Lawrence County
How many people can say that they have owned over 3 square miles of land in Lawrence County AND had an American hero as a squatter on that land? John Christmas McLemore (1790-1864) was one of the most powerful men … Continue reading
The Battle of Lawrenceburg
On this day 162 years ago, Federal soldiers surrounded the courthouse in Lawrenceburg with torches at the ready after a brief fight in the streets. But quick thinking on the part of a local citizen saved our courthouse and our … Continue reading
A Yankee Spy in Lawrenceburg
A Confederate spy, a black market for clandestine cotton, and a town just as defiant in the middle of the Civil War as it was at the beginning? According to one eyewitness on this day 162 years ago, that was … Continue reading
Fightin’ Joe Fights in Lawrence County
On this day 161 years ago, Confederate General “Fightin’” Joe Wheeler was fightin’ in Lawrence County. The months leading up to Hood’s ill-fated Nashville campaign in the fall of 1864 saw a noticeable surge in Confederate guerrilla activity in Middle … Continue reading
Lawrence County’s Last Revolutionary Soldier
Did you know Lawrence County’s last Revolutionary War veteran died less than ten years before the Civil War began? By the early 1850s, there were few Revolutionary War veterans left in the United States. Indeed, on the 1850 census, only … Continue reading
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Marcella Falls: A Brief History
An ancient Native American rendezvous spot, a beautiful waterfall, and a thriving village now vanished? Marcella Falls is a picturesque community about 13 miles northeast of Lawrenceburg, near the Giles County line. Factory Creek drops about 20 feet from a … Continue reading
The Pioneers of Pleasant Garden
Today you may travel to the vicinity of Pleasant Garden to play a round of golf at Dixie Oaks Golf Club. But did you know that Pleasant Garden is probably also the site of one of the oldest settlements in … Continue reading
