Lawrence County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy The crop photo of an elaborate maze on the farm of John Rose of Rose Farms in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. John Rose's first project was a horse and buggy design, which he figured would cover about 8 acres and would take a 7-man crew about a week to make. Rose contacted Navtech GPS supply to ask if there was a way to use GPS to streamline the process. A GPS device uses signals from various satellites space to plot an exact location on the earth. The folks at Navtech sent a GPS to Rose and asked him to drive around the 8 acres with it so a precise map could be drawn of the dimensions of the field as well as its location. They then used computer software to lay out the picture of the horse and buggy, converted that to data that could be entered into the GPS, and Rose used a special riding mower along with the GPS and a laptop computer to hack out the maze in the maize. It took about 3 hours. The next project was the United States map and the message of "God Bless America." The photo was conributed by, Christine Walters. This county is available for adoption. WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU. All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. We're looking for folks who share our desire to put data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested joining our group as County Host for this website, or any of our websites, view our Volunteer Information page and Email Kim. A desire to transcribe data and know-how to make a basic webpage is required. In the meantime, we'd be very happy to accept any data you'd care to contribute and would like to see displayed on this site. We're looking for "raw data" - the birth/death/marriage records, obituaries, cemetery headstone readings, biographies, county histories, census data, pensions and other military data. In short, we'd like to display all the items you used to put together your family tree (rather than the tree itself). Email your transcribed data to us and we'll take care of putting it online. Lawrence County was founded in 1817. It was named in honor of Capt. James Lawrence. He served under Stephen Decatur, in the War of 1812 and commanded the "Chesapeake" in her fight with the frigate, "Shannon." Being mortally wounded he gave the famous command, "Don't give up the Ship." ONLINE DATA Birth Records Biographies Cemeteries Census Church Histories Death Records 1908-1912 Land Records Local History Marriage Records Military Records Obituaries Wills Surrounding Counties Giles -- Lewis -- Maury -- Wayne © Genealogy Trails 2007 Contributors retain all copyrights