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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Most of the parking lots in downtown Mansfield have been in the cityscape for so long it’s hard to imagine there was a time when it was really difficult to find a place to put your car if you were shopping. This photo was […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. In 1930 Mansfield was a Mecca for suffering people from all over the Midwest who came here by the thousands to be made well by a man whose fame spread far and wide for his powers of ‘magnetic healing.’ Crowds would pour into […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — They were called Blue Laws. There are a dozen speculations about where that name came from, but none of them sound particularly convincing, that’s just what they have been called since the 1600s in Colonial America. The Blue Laws regulated what […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2017. Ever since the Upper Paleolithic epoch of history, communities of human beings all over the planet have been painting pictures on the walls. Mansfield humans have been engaged in this movement of public pictorial expression for roughly 140 years. Our city has a […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. In the horse-drawn era a covered bridge was a welcome refuge when the storm hit. Certainly cattle knew that and, given the opportunity they clustered underneath the bridge or even inside… because it looked like a barn. The threat of hidden animals lurking […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in 2015 on Richland Source. It was built in 1949 as a Red and White ‘self-service super market,’ and it originally had a carry out “dairy freeze” window where kids could buy frozen custard cones without entering the store. The meat department offered pre-packaged, and thus “self service,” […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Now it’s summer and American tradition suggests we take a trip to the amusement park. If our car could travel not only over the roads but also through time, we would point it back 100 years and take a spin out West Fourth […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. If you haven’t been to the Square at night since 1945 you may have forgotten that the roof of the Park Theater adds a unique element to the skyline of South Park Street. The funny obelisk lamps that define the upper building in […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in 2015 on Richland Source. If you step in to the urban environment of downtown Mansfield today looking for wild animals you don’t have to hunt far to find lions, giraffes, bears, even ostriches … on the Carrousel. If you had made that same search a hundred years […]