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EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was originally published in 2014. The charming tree-lined and shady neighborhoods approaching downtown Lucas are evident in photos from every decade of its history. Nestled in and on and around hills shaped by the Rocky Fork River, the village has an American hometown quality that is timeless… and most welcome on […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. Many people around Richland County, and around the world, are familiar with the name FLXIBLE: as one of the principal manufacturers of buses in the United States during the 20th century. Throughout the decades of motorcoach evolution, from the 1920s through the 70s, Flxible […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. If you drove here in 1949 you could get the burger, fries, coke and other fine foods. And they had curbside service. Go there today and you’ll be ordering electronic components for the U.S. military at Energy Technologies, Inc. A car hop will probably […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. Money was hard to come by in the 1930s, but if you wanted something strongly enough there was always a way to scrape it together. The folks who lived in the neighborhoods near Grace Street wanted a city park where their kids could […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. A great many historical dates are lost with the passing of generations and the slow diminishing of memory. But we happen to know exactly when Bellville’s Main Street was paved because someone documented the process and turned it into a postcard in 1907. There […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. There is a certain kind of genius behind the design of the historic Ohio State Reformatory (OSR). That sounds like an idle statement, but it’s really not because if you research the architecture of the old castle, and search beyond the architect into the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. It’s a thrill when the Circus comes to town … doesn’t matter whether it was in 1907 or 2014. In 1907 the John Sparks Circus made a grand entrance into Butler with a little parade to show off their calliope and their elephant. […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. When someone’s paintings are bringing increasingly higher prices long after their death, it is certain that the artist — during their lifetime — was able to capture the very soul of the world in which they lived in such a way that it still […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. The man who established this town was Robert Bell, and so its proper name is Bellville — but there was a postmaster a generation later who thought the place would have a little more class if it was in French: Belle Ville, as […]