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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. There is a famous statue on the lawn in front of the Ohio Statehouse you may have seen — it’s known as the “These Are My Jewels” monument. It is an ornamental column surrounded by seven men, from the top of which arises […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. About a hundred years ago, when you rode into Mansfield on the train and looked up at the ‘City on a Hill,’ one of the most striking aspects of the skyline was the predominance of church steeples. From the Square you could easily […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. An interesting storefront on Main Street that was hidden by siding for many years is once again in the light — and so it is easier to compare with images of that Mansfield block from earlier decades. The Kobacker Room of DLX is […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. So maybe somebody said you came from a jerkwater town and maybe that sounds like an insult to you. But do you know where the expression came from? How wrapped up it is in the early railroading lore of American History? And how, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. (A place so grand as Kingwood deserves its epic legend, and a story that big necessarily throws deeper shadows in all directions to give it more dimension. What we know of C.K. King in the 1920s survives only in the ephemeral media of memories, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. For the last several generations — and a whole lifetime for most of us — the postcard view of Mansfield is a scenic and flower-laden portrait of the Hall at Kingwood. By any standards it’s an astonishing jewel to crown a city the […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. It is being republished on the 70th anniversary of the disappearance of Mansfield’s Richard Cox, one of the most intriguing missing person’s cases in United States history. So if you are just walking in on this story let me bring you up to […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — Here are two photos of Park Avenue West in the snow: one taken from the square looking west in 1913, and one taken from Bowman Street looking east in 1911. Comparing them with the same stretch of pavement today, it is […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in 2014. MANSFIELD — Look up the coordinates of “Mt. Mansfield” on your global positioning system and it will probably send you to Vermont.  But local folks recognize that it is a Richland County landmark — located right here in the Possum Run valley — you would need to […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — Since 1951, Maple Lake Park has been used as an athletic field and basketball court. But from 1905 to 1950 it was actually a body of water … and Mansfield’s first “winter sports” complex. This photo essay, comprised of photos from personal albums […]