Lawrence County

For thousands of years, this area was inhabited by
differing cultures of indigenous peoples who built
complex earthwork burial mounds as part of their
religious and political system that still stand today.
Numerous Cherokee descendants have stayed in
the Lawrence County area; the county has the
highest number of self-identified Native
Americans in the state. Lawrence County was
established in 1818, named for James Lawrence,
a captain in the United States Navy from New
Jersey during t