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Lawrence County, Ohio has a rich history. It Happened in Lawrence County, Ohio series attempts to share that history. The second volume features stories about murder, runaway slaves, fires, and founding families.
Lawrence County, Ohio is in the tri-state area of Kentucky and West Virginia and is separated by the Ohio and Guyandotte Rivers respectively. Many times, crimes were committed in Ohio and the offender would escape into one of these states or continue westward. With more frontiers opening up in the West, several Lawrence countians were found in Missouri, Kansas, the Indian Territory, and California committing crimes or running from a criminal past. Old Crimes and Desperados book one started with early 1800's - 1881. More stories were found from those years and have been added to book two as "addendums" to those years. We could not include everything we found about a few of the characters; som...
A collection of approximately 500 historic photographs from the collection of the Lawrence County Museum, Lawrence County Historical Society, Ironton, Ohio.
As selfies and social networks continue to grow in popularity and convenience, the day of mailing postcards have ended. I hope this book will serve as a reference reminder of how people from Lawrence County's past took pride in the various facets of their lives and wanted to share that pride in the form of images via a postcard, a message and a stamp. This book contains postcard images of Lawrence County and surrounding counties in the south-central part of Ohio and north-eastern Kentucky. Many of the postcards pictured are well over a century old and very rare.
Information recorded from microfilmed records of the Children's Home. Additional information was added as found in newspaper accounts, penitentiary records, boys and girls industrial records, blind school records, and personal interviews, among others.