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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. The United States was plunged into World War II on Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. By January of 1942, Richland County was already fully mobilized to engage in the homefront war effort. The primary first step was a concerted […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. The end of an era came last fall at Mary Jane’s Grave when the huge and famous spruce that marked her resting place sadly crashed down among the stones. It might have been appropriate if the scarred old tree had been taken out […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in 2014 on Richland Source. We called them ‘Shrine Barns.’ No doubt this was because we weren’t farmers, we were amateur architects and art historians. These are barns that have white painted arches on their doors — arches like the round Romanesque arch you find on a shrine […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. In autumn of 1931 the sign appealing for public humanitarian support was placed at the west side of the Square facing Park Avenue West. Today it can be found at the other end of the Square, high on the Richland Community Service Center […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. It was the end of the 1800s, when a gentleman in Mansfield saw the century and his youth and our country’s history slipping away.  In 1896 it had been more than 30 years since the Civil War, and the men who bore arms […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — If you have never taken the time to study the walls of the sanctuary in St. Peter’s Church on Mulberry Street, then you are most likely not aware of one of Mansfield’s finest art treasures that is always on display in […]

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 […]