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FREDERICKTOWN — This vintage postcard captures a great view of downtown Fredericktown, around 1908. Several local businesses are visible, including Johnson & Crowell Farm Implements and Vehicles. A search of period newspapers turns up a few references, including that store co-founder Fred Johnson left in 1911 to take up a job in Columbus working for […]

Editor’s Note This is Part II of a 3-part series that began on July 9. Part III will be published on July 23. NELLIE — The Mohawk Dam was a major public works project when it was built in Coshocton County during the 1930s. A dry dam designed to hold back waters during times of […]

NELLIE — It was a warm summer evening on Sunday, July 6, 1924. The Reverend J. H. Proper stepped to the front of the little Mt. Nebo Church, west of the village of Nellie, at the head of Opossum Hollow, near the Knox/Coshocton County line. Rev. Proper smiled and started the evening’s program, which began […]

MANSFIELD — A small audience of curious people gathered Thursday evening in Founders Auditorium on the campus the Mansfield branch of The Ohio State University to catch a rare glimpse of a work shelved for the last 86 years. The piece was “De Luxe,” a play written by Louis Bromfield and John Gearon. It played […]

FREDERICKTOWN — It was that time of year when the night starts coming faster, and the clouds seem to hang a little lower in the sky. This particular evening was more harshly cold than usual, a crisp fall evening with a little bite to it. Roger Smith was driving on Ohio 13, headed toward his […]

FREDERICKTOWN — Meet Orin Bishop. He’s the writer of the 1913 postcard featured in a previous History Knox column. The text of the card told us only that it was sent to Galen Bishop in Columbus from the family home near Fredericktown. Clues in the message allowed readers to puzzle out the location of the […]

FREDERICKTOWN — Say what you will about the pitfalls of social media — and there are plenty — but it can turn a local history column into a discussion with results. Last week we ran an antique postcard image identified as the Bishop home on “Route 2, Fredericktown.” As readers chimed in, discussion pointed out […]

FREDERICKTOWN — In the course of collecting materials for this column, I sometimes find items which open the doors to past stories. Other times, the information that is there is insufficient to unlock the past. This particular card is a bit odd in that it appears to have been written out and addressed, but there […]