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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. Tree-lined brick streets and Model T Fords: that was downtown Mansfield in the 1920s.  St. Luke’s stood on the point at the five-way intersection of Park Avenue, Marion, Bowman and Sturges, as it still does today, a still point around which flows traffic […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. There is really only one iconic image that has consistently represented Mansfield throughout the greatest part of its history, and that is the Blockhouse. There are other very familiar likenesses of places that can serve as a community identifier — like Kingwood, Oak […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2014 on Richland Source. The Administration Building at the Ohio Brass Company was brand new when this photo was taken in 1928 for one of their catalogs.  Founded in 1888 as a small foundry with 20 workers on 2 floors downtown, the Brass prospered tremendously during the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. The Whippets have since moved their football games to behind the Shelby High School complex. SHELBY — The Shelby Whippets take the field every autumn as a heritage transcending many generations in the city’s history. Though school buildings rise and fall through the decades, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published at Richland Source in 2014. The American Bison is always considered iconic of the Wild West, but it also played an integral role in the history of the Wild East as well.  If it wasn’t for the many thousands of years when the buffalo roamed through Richland County […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. If you have ever taken a walk in the woods at Malabar Farm State Park, you already know there is a kind of magic and natural restorative charm under the high canopy of beech-oak forest. What you may not know is that along with […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. PLYMOUTH — People in Plymouth had seen pictures of the fountain downtown, so they were familiar with it, but it had been gone long before they were born so it wasn’t like there was any great nostalgia for it. How do you miss […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published at Richland Source in 2014. The accepted premise behind a “Then & Now” column is that everything changes over time, but generally the distance between Then and Now is measured in decades. What we never expect is when Then & Now unexpectedly turns into a Then & Then […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. There is a good chance we would never have heard of Olive Hill, Kentucky if it hadn’t been for the wartime factory boom of the 1940s.  Mansfield industry had weathered the insecurity of America’s Great Depression in the 30s with a remarkable degree of […]