Submitted

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. LUCAS — In 1907, if you were to take a ride on a sled you would most likely be on a piece of farm equipment behind a horse. Sleds had runners instead of wheels, and were used to haul things over the ground. […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — This photo essay tracks three footnotes in American Popular Culture that were named after Mansfield, Ohio. These are: Mansfield Tire, Martha Mansfield, and Mansfield, Washington. Mansfield Tire In 1912, the Richland Buggy Company on Newman Street could see that the age […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — The U.S. Post Office in Mansfield has been located all over downtown at different times including, originally, in a hollow tree on the Square. This was the first building in town built specifically for the purposes of postal services by the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was previously published at Richland Source in 2013. PLYMOUTH — In 1910, these roadworthy gentlemen took off in the first Plymouth automobile — driving to New York and Atlantic City from … Plymouth, Ohio.  This car, named for the village, was a prototype created by the J.D. Fate Company in Plymouth, better […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — The skyline of the Square in downtown Mansfield has been a slowly evolving work-in-progress since the space was laid out over 200 years ago.  One corner of it, however, took a quantum leap in architectural change when a catastrophic fire wiped […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published in 2014 on Richland Source. Daniel McFarland Cook had a mind that never stopped turning; and for the greatest part of his life, his thoughts were endlessly trying the secrets of electricity, and relentlessly unlocking sources of energy. People around here had a hard time taking him seriously, and […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in Richland Source in 2014. In 1880s America, the news media, the entertainment media, the social media could all be summed up in one word: newspapers.  Everybody read newspapers and the media stars of the day were all writers and columnists. One of the most popular and well-read […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story first appeared in Richland Source in 2013. MANSFIELD — The First Methodist Church in Mansfield built an imposing brick edifice at the corner of Diamond and Park Avenue East in 1870, during the golden age of steeples.  Within a few decades all of the new stone churches built in town had […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2013. MANSFIELD — For many generations, from the founding of Mansfield, the view out Park Avenue West was entirely residential, with tree-lined sidewalks, stately old homes and no hint of a business or commercial presence.  The first of the dominoes to fall was the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2013. MANSFIELD — Folklore has it that Oak Hill Cottage was once a station of the Underground Railroad, and that the hill upon which the old house stands has a hidden tunnel underneath for hiding fugitive slaves. It’s a great story, but it’s not […]