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19 unusual facts about Lawrenceville


Barbara Jane Mackle

The FBI set up their base in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett’s county seat, and more than 100 agents spread out through the area in an attempt to find her, digging the ground with their hands and anything they could find to use.

Duane Robinson

Robinson grew up in Trenton, New Jersey and attended Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Gabriel T. Harrower

Gabriel T. Harrower (September 25, 1816 Guilford, Chenango County, New York – August 15, 1895 Lawrenceville, Tioga County, Pennsylvania) was an American politician from New York.

GIVE Center West

The Gwinnett InterVention Education (G.I.V.E.) Center West is one of two schools in Gwinnett County, Georgia to serve the needs of students with discipline issues that prevent them from attending their neighborhood school, located in Lawrenceville.

Grayville, Illinois

The largest bridge to Indiana south of Lawrenceville, and the only Interstate link between Illinois and Indiana south of Terre Haute, the I-64 river crossing runs parallel to the collapsed rail bridge, about 1000 feet upstream.

Gwinnett Ballet Theatre

Gwinnett Ballet Theatre is a ballet company in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia (Atlanta vicinity).

Isaac Van Arsdale Brown

Later, he was ordained by the New Brunswick presbytery, and in 1807 was made pastor at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where in 1810 he established a classical and commercial boarding-school.

Lawrenceville High School

Lawrenceville High School is a 9th–12th grade high school located in Lawrenceville, Illinois.

Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania

The community is at the New York state line, and part of its development continues into the town of Lindley in Steuben County, New York.

Lawrenceville, Virginia

John Hartwell Marable, who represented Tennessee in the House of Representatives, was also born here.

National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey

The National Guard Museum of New Jersey is headquartered in Sea Girt, with an Artillery Annex in located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and operates under the auspices of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

Phi Sigma Epsilon

:* Phi Epsilon (ΦΕ) Chapter at Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey -Closed in 2011, PSK could re-colonize as Phi Epsilon

Preston Lea

After receiving an education at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Preston Lea went to work for his father at the age of eighteen.

Rider Broncs baseball

The Rider Broncs baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA.

Rider Broncs men's basketball

The Rider Broncs men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States.

Samuel McClintock Hamill

He died in Trenton, NJ in 1889 and is buried in the Lawrenceville Cemetery in Lawrenceville, NJ.

The Rider News

The Rider News is the weekly independent student newspaper of Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Thomas C. Hindman

Meanwhile, the younger Hindman attended local schools before leaving for the Lawrenceville Classical Institute in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, the third oldest boarding school in the country.

University of Georgia School of Social Work

The School is based in Tucker Hall on UGA's South Campus; courses are offered there and at the UGA Gwinnett Campus in Lawrenceville.


Deerfield Academy

A short list of the best-known rivalries among American boarding schools would include AndoverExeter, GrotonSt. Mark's, LawrencevilleHill, and, perhaps tops for fierce observance, Deerfield–Choate.

Dense plasma focus

Experiments and computer simulations to investigate the capability of DPF for fusion power are underway at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) under the direction of Eric Lerner, who explained his "Focus Fusion" approach in a 2007 Google Tech Talk.

George Army Airfield

It was impossible to get to either Lawrenceville or Vincennes, Indiana from the airfield except by boat when the levee broke on the Wabash River.

J. Hart Brewer

Born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Brewer attended the Lawrenceville schools and Trenton Academy, and graduated from the Delaware Literary Institution, Franklin, New York, in 1862.

New York State Route 11B

The Nicholville–Lawrenceville segment of NY 2A was concurrent with NY 56, another route assigned in the mid-1920s that extended from Massena in the northwest to Meacham Lake in the southeast via Winthrop and Saint Regis Falls.

Old Masonic Lodge

Old Seminary Building, also known as The Old Masonic Lodge, in Lawrenceville, Georgia, NRHP-listed