2000 Population:
15,569 County Seat: Louisa
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History from
Collins' History of Kentucky, 1877
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Lawrence county, established in 1821
out of parts of Greenup and Floyd counties, and named after Capt. James
Lawrence of the U.S. navy, was the 69th established in the state.
It is situated in the extreme eastern part of the state, on the waters
of the Big Sandy river; and is bounded N by Carter and Boyd counties, E
by the state of Virginia (from which it is separated by the Big Sandy and
its east or Tug fork), S by Martin and Johnson, and W by Morgan, Elliott,
and Carter counties. The surface is hilly and broken, and the soil fertile;
corn, hogs, and cattle are extensively raised. The county is well watered,
and the timber fine - such as beech, popular, oaks, chestnut, black and
white walnut; thousands of saw logs are annually sent to market. Coal of
the finest quality abounds, and iron ore. Steamboats have ascended the
Big Sandy as far as Pikeville, in Pike county. |
