Lawrenceville

… former town in W Montgomery County on Pee Dee River. Authorized to be laid out as the county seat, 1815; named Laurenceville, 1816. Post office operated as Lawrenceville from 1818 to 1850. After Stanly County was formed from Montgomery County in 1841, Lawrenceville was no longer in the center of the county and was soon replaced as the county seat by Troy. By 1860 it was no longer being shown on maps of the state. The site is now abandoned.