The city of Lawrenceburg is the county chair of Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States, The largest city upon the state’s southern connect between Chattanooga and Memphis, it lies upon the banks of Shoal Creek. The population was 11,633 at the 2020 United States Census. The city is named after War of 1812 American Navy superintendent James Lawrence.

Located regarding 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Nashville at the junction of U.S. Routes 43 and 64, Lawrenceburg is called the “Crossroads of Dixie.”

According to a recent theory, the Lawrenceburg Place is the likely site of “Chicasa”—the place where Spanish entrepreneur Hernando de Soto and his men wintered in 1540–41 (though earlier theories have suggested this campsite to have been in northern Mississippi). The Chickasaw Nation sold the Place to the US in 1816.

Upon moving from East Tennessee into the region going on for 1817, David Crockett served as a justice of the peace, a colonel of the militia, and a declare representative. David Crockett established a powder mill upon Shoal Creek originally called the Sycamore River. This Place is now house to David Crockett State Park. Crockett was elected as a commissioner and served on the board that placed Lawrenceburg four miles (6 km) west of the geographic middle of Lawrence County. Crockett was not well-disposed of the city creature located in its current location, largely out of panic of flooding. He and his relations lived in Lawrenceburg for several years before touching to West Tennessee after a flood destroyed his mill.