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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. First thing you have to know is, there were a lot of clever, talented, handy Scouts in our troop but none of them were in my patrol. Our Scoutmaster had kind of stacked the deck: all the good looking, intelligent boys with a […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. This is the law of time: for every hour we go on there is an hour that slips behind, so that for every bit of gain there is equal loss. In order to enter the future we must relinquish the past — the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. There are a couple of old diehard soldiers who have been standing watch over the Square in Mansfield for a long time. One of them is the infantryman from World War I who came to town in 1922 to memorialize Richland County boys […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Ask any farmer in the county and they will tell you: having the best land, the strongest crops, the healthiest livestock doesn’t mean anything if you can’t sell what you produce. That was the challenge, plain and simple, for farmers in the days […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. There are two very prominent and pivotal figures from Black history in America who both had occasion to come to Mansfield in different centuries, and their experiences in finding overnight accommodations here were as different as black and white. If Frederick Douglass or […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Speeding by on Route 309 you are passing the site of some really fascinating Richland County history.  In the stretch between Mansfield and Ontario, just west of the Home Road bridge, this farm is easily seen on the north side of the highway.  […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. There has been a considerable amount of revision in the streetscape on West Third Street since this image was made in 1905. But fortunately one of the most recognizable landmarks in the scene remains. Today the picturesque cupola on the skyline is the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Drive down Dickson Parkway in Woodland today and you’ll be passing through the heart of the old Dickson Farm. Before James Dickson owned it the land was the Stewart farm, so the old farmhouse stood on the farm lane today known as Stewart […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published at Richland Source in 2015. When a Mansfield photographer stepped into the middle of North Main Street in 1913 to set up his tripod in the snow one night, the entire street was lined – not only with snow piles, but also with buildings. The foreground of the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Richland County has made many significant contributions in the shaping of American popular culture by giving form to our movies, our music and our theater. Watch the credits or take a look backstage and you’ll find folks who grew up in Mansfield giving […]