EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — At one time in Mansfield’s history all the streetcar rails in town led to this site on East Fourth Street at Scott Street. The building in the old photo burned down some years ago but it was replaced by a structure that […]
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The Box Office 1945
In 1945 young Jeannine Skelton sold tickets at the Ohio Theater. It was wartime still — industries locally were hiring everybody and the employment pool was very shallow — so it was not difficult for her to get a job in the ticket booth. We always remember where we were when we first heard news […]
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Remembering the Big Four Depot in Galion
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. GALION — The remarkable Galion depot was built in 1900, originally to service the Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad — known to folks back then more simply as the Big Four. In later generations, the railroad line associated with the depot […]
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Then & Now: Coney Island Diner dates to 1926
The Coney Island Diner 1926 It is a well-known fact that the Coney Island Diner is the oldest restaurant in Mansfield, and it has been in that location since 1936. Ownership changed hands in July 2022, but the business continues to function, much to the delight of the downtown lunch crowd. The coney business on […]
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Interurban streetcar connected through Plymouth in 1907
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. PLYMOUTH — Today when you want to travel to another town you get on a highway. In 1907 you hopped on to an Interurban streetcar. The streetcar (captured in this photo) ran on the tracks of the Sandusky, Norwalk and Mansfield line, which […]
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GALLERY: Ohio State Super Sophs
COLUMBUS — Here’s a look back at the Super Sophs from the 1968 Ohio State football national championship team.
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The Rock Garden at OSR was born from a doomed love story in 1926
There isn’t a lot left of the famous rock garden at the Ohio State Reformatory — it looks like a broken memory; half-remembered fragments of something that happened long ago. That’s exactly what it is. The long ago was 1930, when the first stones were moved into place, and there are some fairly amazing headline […]
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Louis Bromfield and The Farm
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Throughout Mansfield’s long history there have been a great many artists whose works have focused on the city in one way or another. This series of articles collects portraits of our town created in different decades by painters, novelists, playwrights, composers, poets and […]
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Then & Now: Mansfield Carnegie Library 1908
Mansfield’s charming Carnegie Library was built in 1908 on Third Street, and Mansfielders came to love it so much through the years that they refused to pass any library expansion levy until the plan was drawn that would keep the old building intact as part of the enlarged facility. A “Temple of Learning” was how […]
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Remembering North Lake boathouse in 1945
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — When the streams of Toby’s Run were ponded into the body of water called North Lake in 1888, a new sporting pastime was born in Mansfield: the opportunity to go boating. Through the following generations the lake had a whole fleet […]