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Lawrenceville| City and administrative headquarters of Gwinnett County, north Georgia, 42 km/26 mi northeast of Atlanta; population (1990) 16,800. Local industries manufacture aluminium products, boats, and clothing. |
Lawrenceville| Section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River, 5 km/3 mi northeast of the Golden Triangle (the triangle of land between the converging Allegheny and Monongahela rivers). The area is divided between industrial and commercial flats characterized by now-closed mills and blast furnaces, and residential higher ground. |
| A Delaware American Indian village until the 18th century, it was laid out in 1814. The US composer Stephen Foster was born here (1826). |
Lawrenceville| Town and administrative headquarters of Brunswick County, southern Virginia, 64 km/40 mi southwest of Petersburg, and 24 km/15 mi north of the North Carolina border; population (1990) 1,500. It is a trade centre for the area's tobacco, grain, and cotton. |
| St Paul's College (1888) is here. |
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