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Photo: Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY · CC BY-SA 2.0Its Register listings are the James Ford House and the Judge John Ryon House. Below: the census since 1850.
Lawrenceville dates its founding to 1793 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1850.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lawrenceville’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1970 and 1980, then more than doubled.
18 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Lawrenceville’s Wikipedia page.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereHosea H. Rockwell is born hereWikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lawrenceville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Lawrenceville is a borough in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The population was 690 at the 2020 census.
Lawrenceville was established in 1793. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 581 to 691 (+19%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Lawrenceville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
At Blossburg the road connects with the Fall Brook Railroad, at Lawrenceville with the Corning, Cowanesque and Antrim Railroad, and at Elmira with the New York, Lake Erie and Western, the Northern Central, the Lehigh Valley and theUtica, Ithaca and Elmira railroads; and it is presumed that ere this is placed in the hands of the reader connections will be made with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and the Arnot and
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The Cowanesque Valley Railroad Company was incorporated in 1869 by act of the Legislature, with power " to construct a railroad from Lawrenceville, Pa,, by way of the Cowanesque Valley, to a connection in the counties of Potter or McKean with the Buffalo and Wasliington Railroad." Under the authority of this act ten miles of the road were built and put in operation in 1873, terminating at Elkland. For operating purposes it was
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Ira Kilburn, who settled in Lawrenceville in 1802, erected a few years later, a saw-mill and a grist-mill, on almost the exact site of the present railroad station. These he carried on for many years. He also erected a distillery a short distance south of the station, which was operated by himself and Hiram Beebe.
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In 1840 the society was incorporated under the name of the "Presbyterian Congregation of Lawrenceville." There were thirty incorporators, including the following trustees: Erastus Butts, Joel Adams, Micajaii Seelye, James Ford and Samuel Eockwell. In 1860, on account of dissensions, a portion of the membership withdrew and the Second Presbyterian church of Lawrenceville was organized by a committee of the Presbytery of Susquehanna. Eev. Lyell T. Adams was employed as pastor until 1866. His successor, Eev. John Garretson, supplied the pulpit until 1870, when the two factions were again united. The church now numbers
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Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1793, according to Wikidata. Lawrenceville’s post office opened in 1819, and the census of 1850 counted 494 people here.
Two places: the James Ford House (listed 1975) and the Judge John Ryon House (1977).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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