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Lawrence County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
31historic places
—earliest paper
1814formed
12,016pop. 2020
18cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 31 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Monticello, New Hebron, Jayess.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Mississippi is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Lawrence titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

26 of 31 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

31 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Armstrong-Lee HouseMonticelloBuilding1980
Bahala Creek BridgeOmaStructure1988
Boyd-Cothern HouseJayessBuilding1980
Buckley HouseNew HebronBuilding1980
Bush HouseNew HebronBuilding1980
Cannon HouseMonticelloBuilding1980
Crane-Mason HouseMonticelloBuilding1980
Douglas HouseSontagBuilding1980
Fox HouseWanillaBuilding1980
George Mound (22LW591)OmaSite1987
Gunnell HouseJayessBuilding1980
Hilliard HouseWanillaBuilding1980
Johnson-White HouseSontagBuilding1980
Knapp-Stephens HouseNew HebronBuilding1980
Lawrence County CourthouseMonticelloBuilding1993
Longino HouseMonticelloBuilding1972
Lowe-Steen Site (22LW511)MonticelloSite1987
Mill Creek SiteMonticelloSite1978
Monticello Consolidated SchoolMonticelloBuilding1991
New Orleans Great Northern Railroad DepotMonticelloBuilding1995
Newsom-Lane HouseNew HebronBuilding1980
Newsom-Smith HouseNew HebronBuilding1980
Price-Stephens HouseNew HebronBuilding1980
River RoadOak ValeDistrict2011
Robbins HouseJayessBuilding1980
Rogers HouseSilver CreekBuilding1980
Smith, A. L., HouseMonticelloBuilding1980
Stringer HouseNew HebronBuilding1980
Thompson, June and Nora, HouseNew HebronBuilding2005
Tynes HouseJayessBuilding1980
Wilson HouseMonticelloBuilding1980

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lawrence was formed in 1814 (1814-12-22) from Marion.

LAWRENCE created by Mississippi Territory from MARION.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lawrence County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

15k10k4,9161820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,9165,9209,2139,42015,10312,66313,98312,63910,21512,51813,25812,016

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

18 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 18 of 18 listed
NameLatLon
Armstrong Cemetery31.61155-90.00313
Benson Cemetery31.69377-89.99258
Bozeman Cemetery31.42017-90.04841
Buckey Cemetery31.7346-90.00174
Cliburn Cemetery31.7071-90.02785
Dampeer Cemetery31.71766-89.98535
Droummonds Cemetery31.71377-89.98369
Fair Hill Cemetery31.69488-90.17647
Hepzibah Cemetery31.48128-89.96647
North Pleasant Hill Cemetery31.72766-90.04869
Sauls Cemetery31.41378-90.0223
Sauls Valley Cemetery31.37322-90.06147
Scarber Cemetery31.66544-90.03841
Sills Cemetery31.68127-89.9773
Smith Cemetery31.7221-89.98174
Stephens Cemetery31.65211-90.0248
Stringer Cemetery31.69849-90.04647
Wilson Cemetery31.61627-90.10452
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Hardscrabble31.561-90.05231

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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