Area History

Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. The home that author Louis Bromfield built on his farm in Pleasant Valley was designed very intentionally to appear as if it had grown through the generations, with successive additions built on to an old farmhouse. The ‘generations of additions’ part of the […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on April 6, 2011. It’s being republished here via a collaboration agreement. The following list presents the Ohio History Society Archaeology staff’s views on the top 10 places to experience the legacy of Ohio’s ancient American Indians. Most of the sites are earthworks […]

Editor’s Note:  This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. There is ground in the northern end of Mansfield that has been tamped hard by the feet of marching men, and tempered sacred by the yearnings of those who were willing to die if their sacrifice could preserve our nation. This land—two large […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Feb. 21, 2017. It is being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. On May 4, 1846, the Randolph People were manumitted by a court in Virginia following 13 years of litigation. John Randolph, the former master of these slaves, had […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — There is ground in the northern end of Mansfield that has been tamped hard by the feet of marching men, and tempered sacred by the yearnings of those who were willing to die if their sacrifice could preserve our nation. This land […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published April 4, 2023 by the Ohio History Connection. It is being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. LURAY, Ohio — To work in the Ohio History Connection Archives & Library is to be surrounded by remarkable Ohio stories. The story of author Mary Hartwell Catherwood reads like […]