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Editor’s Note: This story was originally published at Richland Source in 2015. GALION — When the photo image was produced in 1907 for this postcard, the principle thoroughfare through Galion was called Main Street, like so many thousands of other small cities in America. It was only a few years later however, when history granted the […]

Editor’s Note: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2015. It started as a schoolhouse in 1850 for almost a half-century, and then spent another 60 years as a Grange hall. In 1965 it became the Richland County Museum, and walking through the exhibits there is like a little time trip visiting all those many […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. It’s easy to guess that in 1896, when the Intermediate Penitentiary opened in Mansfield, people around here had never seen anything like it … or people in Ohio and the entire Midwest for that matter. For the next 30 years the place became something […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source on 2015. LUCAS — If you had arrived at Malabar Farm in the 1950s and pulled up in front of the Big House, the first thing you would have noticed — after the frantic greeting committee of ecstatic dogs — was a statue next to the […]

Editor’s Note: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2015. BELLVILLE — The Jefferson Grange 251 of the Patrons of Husbandry built this hall on Church Street for their meetings in 1907. But they had organized as far back as 1874 in order to promote the economic and political well being of the community and […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — By the 1880s, Mansfield had become a notable and promising powerhouse in Ohio in terms of its industrial and political presence. Yet the city was lagging in certain common societal and community essentials — one of these being the presence of thriving […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. The Ritter House was built on South Main Street hill in 1891, and fashioned in the Queen Anne style of Victorian brick architecture. As a distinctive and prominently visible landmark, the old house has been loved by generations of Mansfielders. So, when the proposal […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. BUTLER — If you’ve been to Butler on a busy day — say during the summer Community Fest — you know that the small town can fill up pretty fast and it doesn’t take long before it’s overflowing. That’s how it was in the […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published by Richland Source in 2015. Roeliff Brinkerhoff was one of the men most influential in making Mansfield what it has become. Even beyond the parameters of our town he lived a notable life, and he saw a great deal of American history in his lifetime. As a young man […]