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Official Home of Lawrence County, KY KYGENWEB Project Working to provide free internet genealogy research resources.
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| Welcome to Lawrence County!
Lawrence County lies in the coal fields of the extreme northeastern
corner of Kentucky. The majority of early settlers to Lawrence County were
from Scots/Irish
stock and came to KY from Virginia and North Carolina.
The eastern KY culture bears much that came down the years from our Scots/Irish ancestors....warm, friendly folks with a strong belief in God, family and country. Laura and I both have strong ties to Lawrence County and shepherding this research effort is a great joy to us. Laura's parents both came from Lawrence County, having met at Dee's Drive In in Louisa. Lawrence County research effort is a labor of love! All contributions are most welcome. Lawrence County, the sixty-ninth county formed in Kentucky, dates from 1821. Its territory, composed of 272,000 acres, was taken from Greenup and Floyd Counties. It lies in the extreme eastern part of the state along the Kentucky-West Virginia boundary. Charles Vancouver of London, England was issued a patent for a 2,000 acre tract of land which contained the present site of Louisa, the county seat, by the British government in 1772. The survey of this grant was made by George Washington during the late 1760s. Vancouver came to the
newly formed United States and settled at the Forks of the Big Sandy
in 1789. He erected a fort, built a few cabins and did some farming.
However, he abandoned the area because Indians of several tribes
used this area as their hunting grounds — until finally forced out
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