By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & VolunteerAlexander Heasley was born in 1840 in Pennsylvania and was living with his family in Pulaski Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania by 1850.Enlisted…
By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & VolunteerIn October 1841, the Mercer Luminary reported that six or eight Negro hunters from Virginia came upon four Negroes at a house…
By Betty Hoover DiRisio, LCHS Board Member & Volunteer An interesting account of a former slave was found in a 1898 issue of the New Castle News. According to the…
By Edward X. Petrus, Board President, LCHS. Originally posted on our front page April 26, 2021. “The Lawrence County Historical Society strongly advises against the establishment of a Dollar General…
By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) – originally posted on our Facebook page February 18, 2021 Three Black Businessmen's ads in the 1866 New Castle City Directory…
By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer) - originally posted on our Facebook page February 9, 2021 Many have studied the Civil War history of the infamous 100th…
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…
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…
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,…
By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) William A. Stewart was born in 1834 in Mercer County to Lemuel B. and Margaret Stewart. He married Isabelle Berry and they had two…
By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS volunteer) Henry Williamson Brooks was born in Ross Township, Allegheny County on July 3, 1846 to John and Eliza (Turbin) Brooks. Henry learned the “tonsorial”…
By Joyce Ross, Administrative Secretary, LCHS staff My love of spooky and eerie things probably stems from one of my favorite childhood movies: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, that starred…