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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 […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — The greater downtown district of Little Washington consists of a single crossroads: where Hanley Road and the Washington Road cross. During the greatest part of its history — since 1837 — this intersection has had a Congregational Church on one of the […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — More than 100 years ago, if you had gone on a picnic at South Park in Mansfield, you would no doubt have taken a stroll through the wildflower gardens in the south end of the grounds. To get across the little wooded […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. I want to warn you right up front that there is a kind of stupid joke at the end of this story, but I swear I wouldn’t tell it if it were not true. This is the story about the Legend of Mohawk Hill. […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. It’s not always easy to see history in a cityscape where people are always showing off the latest vehicles and popular trends in appearance. But sometimes a particular window on the past opens up and what seems current is suddenly cast into a perspective […]

Editor’s Note: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2015. We are publishing it as originally written. There is an addendum to it that will appear in next week’s column — as it originally happened. MANSFIELD — Then & Now recently presented a story about Big Jacque with views of his former post on Lexington […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — It’s in the Bible — I’m not kidding — you can find it in Genesis 6:4 … There were giants in the earth in those days. Those days were the early 70s in Mansfield, on Lexington Avenue. There was a giant who worked […]