The Lawrence Register has been Lawrence County, Ohio's oldest and largest website for over 25 years. It is free and requires no membership login. Historical stories and genealogy material will keep you reading about Ohio's most southern county for hours.
Lawrence Baker owned Baker Store in Deering, Lawrence County, Ohio. I believe he bought it from his Grandfather, who was a Keeney. In the
Lawrence County, Ohio. Once a thriving operation as reported by the March 1932 Ironton Tribune/a/>
Abandoned school in Linnville, Ohio, which is in the middle of nowhere in Lawrence county.
Approximately ten years ago, William and Howard Swartz went to Chesapeake, Ohio, where they operated the Continental Club, but in 1949 Ohio
A subscription list of interest was that in 1850 to build the first public school house in Ironton, Ohio, on 4th street, on the lots now
This is the historic Ohio Route 93 Ironton Tunnel. It was constructed in 1866 by Dr. B. F. Cory and was a way for horses and buggies to access
Ironton, Ohio-A break at the county jail was foiled by Sheriff Carl E. Rose's deputies when it was learned a plan was underway to escape from
Ironton Tribune September 17, 1967 - There are 65 covered bridges still in daily use in the State. Eight counties have but one covered bridge
Highlights Lawrence County may seem a sleepy little place, but looks are deceiving. Author(s): Lori Shafer 128 Pages History, United States Series Name: Wicked Description Book Synopsis Lawrence County may seem a sleepy little place, but looks are deceiving. The red light district in Ironton attracted enough attention for an FBI raid. On the other side of the law, Judge Lloyd Burwell became nationally known for his strict sentencing, which made him the subject for a movie starring Andy Griffith. A 1915 shooting on a shanty boat on the Ohio River sparked a fierce context between Ohio and West Virginia over who had jurisdiction to prosecute the case. The mob ties of Continental Nite Club in Chesapeake ran all the way to the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. Local historian and author Lori Shafer gathers a selection of thrilling and occasionally gruesome tales from Lawrence County's dark past.
Discover hiking and OHV trails, Underground Railroad history, the origins of an American football tradition and more in Lawrence County, Ohio.
Morgan Trau News 5 Cleveland Lawrence County, OH Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Lawrence_County%2C_Ohio_Courthouse.jpg please press: www.news5cleveland.com
The History of Burlington Ohio Academy institution was founded in the Spring of 1842 by the joint contributions of the citizens of Lawrence
The Lawrence Register has been Lawrence County, Ohio's oldest and largest website for over 25 years. It is free and requires no membership login. Historical stories and genealogy material will keep you reading about Ohio's most southern county for hours.
At about 1:00 this morning, the Court House took fire and burned. The Treasurer’s, Recorder’s, Sheriff’s, and Probate Judge’s offices, with
A later picture of Scottown. Ohio. Old Lemley's store later became Holschuh's. — at Scottown, in Lawrence County Ohio - Vera
The Etna Iron Works was a blast furnace in Lawrence County, Ohio. It was one of about 100 furnaces which made up the Hanging Rock Iron District of southern Ohio. This district produced much of Ohio’s and America’s iron in the first seventy-five years of the nineteenth Century and iron products from these furnaces were used to fight the Civil War. The Industrial Revolution, with its roller mills and high-grade ores, replaced the old blast furnaces near the end of the nineteenth Century, but not before they wrote a chapter in American history. This ledger is a balance sheet of expenses and expenditures for that company for the period 1876–1878, a period when the furnace was about to be closed and may be the last ledger produced. It lists employees of the furnace with their job and salary. The ledger is important for researchers because the furnace workers lived in a company town — similar to those found later in the Appalachian coal fields. The company town provided all services for its employees, mainly because the company paid in scrip accepted only at the company store. The workers had little contact outside the community and maybe were ignored by the outside world, for it appears people living in the Etna Iron Works community were not counted by every census. This book lists Lawrence County residents not found in other sources. It also gives the researcher an insight into the life and work of people engaged in the primitive iron business in the early period of an Ohio valley settlement. A map, facsimile reprints of Etna scrip and newspaper ads, and an index to employee surnames (by ledger page number) add to the value of this work. Carrie Eldridge (2009), 2022, 8½x11, paper, index, 286 pp ISBN: 9780788426544 101-E2654
"North Country" is the upper tier of counties in New York state bordering Canada and including the northern part of the Adirondack Park. It's a very rural place, and very special. All the pictures below were taken in St. Lawrence County, ranging from abandoned farms in the town of Hammond to a Civil War re-enactment in Massena. Most of the water pictures were taken around Morristown, looking over to Brockville, Ontario, on the Canadian side of the river. I hope you can appreciate the great beauty here, and not just in the sunsets. I have a few additional notes at the bottom of the post, after the photos: I've been coming here on a regular basis for most of my life, and have many relatives who live or summer in St. Lawrence county. Change is slow. Sometimes it mirrors what is happening elsewhere in America -- seemingly everyone has gotten a mobile phone, "for sale" signs are commonplace, and Wal-mart and national franchises dominate the retail landscape on the outskirts of Ogdensburg, Massena, and a few other small cities. But sometimes the change is unpredictable. In the 1990s, Amish started buying cheap farms in the North Country, and now they are ubiquitous. The influx has somewhat offset the downward trend in the locally born population, and have helped to reinvigorate the farming economy in St. Lawrence county. Images: I am licensing the photos of St. Lawrence County under Creative Commons 3.0 CC-BY, which basically means you are free to copy them, place them on your own website, use them for commercial purposes, and adapt them, as long as you attribute them to Ian Lamont and link back to this post on ilamont.com. The graphic of the North Country counties was uploaded to Wikipedia by Jondude11. I am reproducing it here under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, as described here.
Approximately ten years ago, William and Howard Swartz went to Chesapeake, Ohio, where they operated the Continental Club, but in 1949 Ohio
The Ironton Portland Cement Company, which has been contributing not a little to the prosperity of this section with their gas operations, in
In all the research I have done, the Wakefield family has been the most documented. Much of the early information I have included came from
An ordinance granting the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad Company the right to remove tracks from the Second and Vesuvius Street cross
Okey Chapel is located in Mason Township, Lawrence County, Ohio. Carl Murdock took this photo in the 2000s.
A subscription list of interest was that in 1850 to build the first public school house in Ironton, Ohio, on 4th street, on the lots now
Last night a message was received from the Marshal of Willow Wood, Lawrence County, Ohio, offering a $300 reward for the arrest of Irwin and his pal Wm. Norris.
Photos about the Detroit Toledo Ironton Railroad, located in Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio during the height of the iron furnace era.
Sugar Creek Baptist Church at Hecla, Lawrence County, Ohio. Photo courtesy of Carl Murdock, 2019. This photo was posted on The Lawrence
What we knew as Goldcamp Hardware was built as The Ironton Odd Fellows Temple. In 1895 the county leased a room for the county surveyor's
Ironton Tribune September 17, 1967 - There are 65 covered bridges still in daily use in the State. Eight counties have but one covered bridge
Steamboats were an important part of Lawrence County, Ohio's history, and the Bay Brothers Steamboats were well known for their role in
The picture shows a group at the Lucinda Chapel Baptist Church, Lawrence Co., Ohio, ca. in the late 1890s. The lower left photo is the home
Cherryville – Aid Township Post Office: 1890 – 1917 Location: 38.610883, -82.530982 on Sharp’s Creek Rd (Co Rd 19) between Martin Rd and Symmes Creek Rd along Sharps Creek Remnant…
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This is the historic Ohio Route 93 Ironton Tunnel. It was constructed in 1866 by Dr. B. F. Cory and was a way for horses and buggies to access
We researched the history of Chesapeake, Ohio, Airpark for your convenience. Tri-State Airport in Huntington, WV is the result of the need for
