Kenny Libben, Curator Cleo Redd Fisher Museum

MCKAY — Robert Wilson, of McKay, was a conductor along the Underground Railroad. Wilson was a farmer who built a two-room log cabin south of McKay in 1831. He was believed to join the Underground Railroad effort in 1850, stowing runaways in his barn underneath the hay. The first runaways to arrive at the Wilson […]

LOUDONVILLE — The Clear Fork Gorge in Mohican State Forest was formed around 12,000 years ago by the forces of the melting Wisconsin Glacier at its southern boundary. The gorge is 1,000 feet wide at the top and 300 feet deep. The old growth forest, although only eight acres in extent, includes huge native white […]

HAYESVILLE — On June 10, 1906, George Francis Eihinger was born outside of Hayesville to Daisy and Lester Eihinger (also listed as Ethinger). George was unique, though, born with one head, one heart, two bodies, two stomachs, three legs, four kidneys, and 15 toes. George weighed 14 pounds and had a strong appetite — eating six […]

MILLERSBURG — Holmes County native Frank D. Gallion left home in 1941 to join the war in Europe, but didn’t return home until 1996 — 55 years later. Gallion didn’t want to wait for America to declare war — if they ever would — and in 1941 enlisted early with the Royal Canadian Air Force […]

MANSFIELD — Mansfield’s Lahm Airport is named for an unlikely aviator with a rather surprising rise to fame. Frank P. Lahm was born in Mansfield in 1877, but following the death of his mother in 1880 his father — suffering from prolonged illness — moved to Europe to recover, leaving Frank and his sister with […]

LOUDONVILLE — Weidner Motor Sales in Loudonville caused quite a stir in 1949 when the company added a well-known celebrity to its customer list. Pete Weidner, owner, was a friend of Pulitzer prize winning novelist Louis Bromfield, who built and lived at Malabar Farm on the other side of Perrysville. Weidner often visited Bromfield on […]

BUTLER — The Mohican area is well known for Lyons Falls, but the area is also home to the lesser-known Hemlock Falls located between Perrysville and Butler. Hemlock Falls was an early meeting spot for locals, even hosting the first Richland County pioneer meeting in 1856. It was named by Roeliff Brinkerhoff, editor of the […]

LOUDONVILLE — On Feb. 22, 1853 the first train passed through Loudonville. It ran along the newly built Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad. The depot was built on North Water Street and would soon witness over 100 trains passing through on a daily basis, though only seven would stop to load and unload passengers. Eventually, two […]