Lawrence County TNGenWeb

On this day in 1905, the cornerstone for Lawrence County’s 1905 Courthouse was placed in an “impressive” ceremony held before a “big crowd.”   The building was Lawrence County’s third permanent courthouse and would stand at the center of the Public Square for nearly seven decades.   The cornerstone for the building, which is preserved today in the modern Lawrence County Courthouse, was laid by some of Lawrence County’s Masons. The Masons have long been present at the ceremonial cornerstone-laying…

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  The information above was copied from the Web site named Lawrence County Genealogical Society.  The site was maintained by Kathy Niedergeses, but she has retired.  We are unsure of the site’s future.  Original Lawrence County TNGenWeb Coordinator Reita Jones Burress posted shared content with the LCGS site over the course of 27 years.  Therefore, we decided to incorporate the content here.  No copyright infringement is intended by providing this information for the benefit of researchers. Source URL: http://home.lorettotel.net/~lcarchives/earlyhistlawco.htm The…

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  The information above was copied from the Web site named Lawrence County Genealogical Society.  The site was maintained by Kathy Niedergeses, but she has retired.  We are unsure of the site’s future.  Original Lawrence County TNGenWeb Coordinator Reita Jones Burress posted shared content with the LCGS site over the course of 27 years.  Therefore, we decided to incorporate the content here.  No copyright infringement is intended by providing this information for the benefit of researchers. Source URL: http://home.lorettotel.net/~lcarchives/earlyhistlawco.htm The…

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  The information above was copied from the Web site named Lawrence County Genealogical Society.  The site was maintained by Kathy Niedergeses, but she has retired.  We are unsure of the site’s future.  Original Lawrence County TNGenWeb Coordinator Reita Jones Burress posted shared content with the LCGS site over the course of 27 years.  Therefore, we decided to incorporate the content here.  No copyright infringement is intended by providing this information for the benefit of researchers. Source URL: http://home.lorettotel.net/~lcarchives/earlyhistlawco.htm When…

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  The information above was copied from the Web site named Lawrence County Genealogical Society.  The site was maintained by Kathy Niedergeses, but she has retired.  We are unsure of the site’s future.  Original Lawrence County TNGenWeb Coordinator Reita Jones Burress posted shared content with the LCGS site over the course of 27 years.  Therefore, we decided to incorporate the content here.  No copyright infringement is intended by providing this information for the benefit of researchers. Source URL: http://home.lorettotel.net/~lcarchives/earlyhistlawco.htm Birth…

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  The information above was copied from the Web site named Lawrence County Genealogical Society.  The site was maintained by Kathy Niedergeses, but she has retired.  We are unsure of the site’s future.  Original Lawrence County TNGenWeb Coordinator Reita Jones Burress posted shared content with the LCGS site over the course of 27 years.  Therefore, we decided to incorporate the content here.  No copyright infringement is intended by providing this information for the benefit of researchers. Source URL: http://home.lorettotel.net/~lcarchives/earlyhistlawco.htm Creation…

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Written By: Lloyd L. Brian March 1976 The first part of this history of Ethridge is about events that took place before the turn of the century, around 1880, and up until about 1914 and was related to me many years ago by elderly men that had lived here during that period, and also from writings of other people. Ethridge had its beginning about three quarters of a mile south of the present city of Ethridge at what is known…

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