Briggs Library acting director Chris Hunt and library trustee Bill Burcham examine artifacts from two Lawrence County archaeological sites on display at the Grandview inn in this 1991 photo. The artifacts included arrowheads and stone tools found at a rock shelter near Brady Creek in Washington Township used by Native Americans between 2000 B.C. and 700 A.D. and coins, buttons, pottery fragments and a pair of 18th century glasses found at the site of the Luke Kelly cabin, built in 1796. Tom Bellville, of Bellville Mining, loaned the items to the public library for display. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

Lawrence County Health Commissioner Dr. B.J. Allison, left, and Acting Commissioner Dr. Harold Sturgeon accept a plaque from H.V. Blackburn, Portsmouth Social security office, certifying the Lawrence County health Department as a participating Home Health Agency for Medicare patients in 1966. Medicare was a new program, launching that year, after legislation creating it was passed in Congress and signed into law by president Lyndon B. Johnson. (The Ironton Tribune | File photo)

Whitwell Elementary School first grader Freddie Kingery, of Ironton, receives a skin test from public health technician Walter Staley during mass testing for undetected tuberculosis in the schools in 1966. (The Ironton Tribune | File photo)