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Rookie of Year & MVP

Post published:February 19, 2020
Post category:Black History Sports

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) Richie “Dick” Allen Richie “Dick” Allen was born on March 8, 1942 in Wampum Pennsylvnaia and attended Wampum High School. He…

Mt Jackson Soldier & US Congressman

Post published:February 19, 2020
Post category:1849-1899 Black History

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) On May 12, 1862, 22 year-old Robert Smalls, a slave who was to soon go down in history, was working onboard…

The Road to Coal Town

Post published:August 25, 2019
Post category:1849-1899

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) Sometime after John Stockman discovered coal in Lawrence County in 1810, it was found there was a heavy coal deposit in…

A White Pebble Lain – Jewish Heritage in Lawrence County

Post published:July 12, 2019
Post category:Judaism

By Andrew W. Henley, LCHS Board Member Article written October 21, 2017 during which time Andrew W. Henley was Executive Director of LCHS. The hall was decorated with almost two…

Notes From a Schoolboy in the 1820s

Post published:June 11, 2019
Post category:Education

By Robert Galbreath, Collections Curator October 28, 2017 Documents written by ordinary people - such as letters, diaries, meeting minutes, or even notes scrawled in a book - can reveal…

We Can Do It – WWII exhibit

Post published:March 30, 2019
Post category:War

By Lorraine Petrus (LCHS Board of Directors) Our We Can Do It! World War II Exhibit is full of displays, events, programs and speakers. Complete Program Information is listed below…

Post Office on the Diamond

Post published:March 11, 2019
Post category:1930-1949 Great Depression

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) The Public Buildings Act The Public Buildings Act of 1926 authorized $50M for the construction of federal buildings in Washington DC, and earmarked an…

Suffrage Pioneer Pamphilia Hardman Phillips

Post published:March 8, 2019
Post category:1900-1929 Women

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) Pamphilia Hardman Phillips was a Lawrence County Suffrage Pioneer. She was born on October 31, 1844 in Petersburg, Ohio to Mr. and Mrs. David…

Nurse Harriet J Eckels

Women Also Served in the Great War

Post published:February 8, 2019
Post category:1900-1929 War Women

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) Nurse Harriet J. Eckels was born on April 2, 1888 in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. She and 100 fellow Red Cross nurses and 30 physicians…

The Red Cross in Lawrence County

Post published:November 9, 2018
Post category:1900-1929 Women

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) The establishment of the American Red Cross in Lawrence County was due in large measure to the untiring efforts of Mrs. William Wallace Clendenin.…

The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen

Post published:August 16, 2018
Post category:Black History Military War

By Stephanie Fulena (LCHS volunteer) "In 1925, an Army War College Study of black troops in World War l concluded that "blacks would never have what it takes to fly…

George Milton Book – from Midshipman to Rear Admiral

Post published:March 5, 2018
Post category:1849-1899 Military

By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) George Milton Book was born in New Castle May 25, 1845 to Col. William and Ann (Emery) Book. He spent his childhood in town,…