Lawrence is a small town 13 km from

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. It is accessed by the Lawrence car ferry from

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or by travelling 30 kilometres north from Grafton. At the 2016 census, the population of Lawrence was 1046. Lawrence has a number of sporting facilities including, a

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field and

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fields, a nine-hole golf course and tennis courts. Lawrence has a public school, a general store, post office, police station, Tavern and a local school and route bus service. It also has a museum (

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) housed in the old radio station building as well as very well preserved Public Hall of timber construction dating from 1892. The town is in the

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area.

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's brother was named after the town, and he writes about a visit to the town he made in 2013. He was able to reconnect with some of the history of his father's Bundjalung family, after he saw a huge photo of the family in the museum.

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