Lawrenceburg: from Kaufman's Station to Anderson County seat

A post office named Lawrenceburgh opened there in 1817. The town took its first name, Lawrence, from William Lawrence, a tavern keeper and one of its founders, and was incorporated in 1820 while it was still part of Franklin County.

In January 1827 the General Assembly created Anderson County from parts of Franklin, Mercer and Washington counties, named for the late Congressman Richard C. Anderson Jr. The same act declared that the town of Lawrence "shall hereafter be called and known by the name of Lawrenceburg" and set the new county's first courts there.

Kentucky today

Lawrenceburg is still the seat of Anderson County. The courthouse on the square, built about 1915, keeps the outer walls of the earlier courthouse that burned that year.