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Photos courtesy of: K. Huisjen | Lawrence is located in southern Van Buren County on the Red Arrow Highway, about eight miles west of Paw Paw. It is situated on the Paw Paw River and at the junction of County Roads 365, 215 and 673. It has a village form of government and its own school system. Its economic base is supported primarily by local small business, agriculture and some small to medium manufacturing.
Lawrence was first settled in 1835 by John Allen, who named the town "Mason" after Michigan�s Governor, Steven T. Mason. Allen apparently did not register the land, however, and he was later foreclosed upon by a John Baker, who then owned most of the land in the village.
Baker then renamed it Lawrence, after the Township, and officially registered the plat. It later was incorporated as a village in 1879.
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