Dearborn County Historical Society

Dearborn County Historical Society is a museum in Lawrenceburg Township, Dearborn, Indiana, which is located on West High Street. Dearborn County Historical Society is situated near Historic Lawrenceburg Garden, as well as near Lawrenceburg/Aurora Trail Park.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Lawrenceburg High School and Tanner’s Creek Generating Station.

Lawrenceburg High School

School

Lawrenceburg High School is a high school located in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The current building was built in 1937. In 1964 the new gym was built to bring the sectionals back to Lawrenceburg. Lawrenceburg High School is situated 4,000 feet north of Dearborn County Historical Society.

Tanner’s Creek Generating Station

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Tanner's Creek Generating Station was a major, 1000-MWe coal-fired electrical power plant in Indiana. Located on the north bank of Ohio River along Tanners Creek, it was one of the two coal-fired power stations within 3 miles of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, near the tripoint of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Tanner’s Creek Generating Station is situated 3,900 feet southwest of Dearborn County Historical Society.

Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge is a continuous steel arch-shaped truss bridge over the Ohio River between Indiana and Kentucky. Built between 1968 and 1977, the four-lane arched truss span provides a western Ohio River crossing for the Interstate 275 beltway around the Cincinnati area. Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge is situated 2 miles northeast of Dearborn County Historical Society.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lawrenceburg and Petersburg.

Lawrenceburg

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Lawrenceburg is in Southern Indiana and was founded in 1802 as a center around riverboat commerce on the Ohio River.

Petersburg

Hamlet

Petersburg is a rural unincorporated community and census-designated place in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census Petersburg, along with its surrounding areas that use the 41080 zip code, had a population of 500. Petersburg is situated 1½ miles southwest of Dearborn County Historical Society.

Hardinsburg

Neighborhood

Hardinsburg is an unincorporated community in Lawrenceburg Township, Dearborn County, Indiana. Hardinsburg is situated 2½ miles north of Dearborn County Historical Society.

Dearborn County Historical Society

Type: Museum
Address: 508 West High Street, Lawrenceburg, IN 47025
Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Lawrenceburg Township, Dearborn, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.0888° or 39° 5′ 20″ north

Longitude

-84.85203° or 84° 51′ 7″ west

Open location code

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OpenStreetMap ID

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OpenStreetMap feature

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OpenStreetMap feature

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Historic Lawrenceburg Garden and Lawrenceburg/Aurora Trail Park.

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