Area History

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 3, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the third in a three-book trilogy. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes Her Tune, while Volume II […]

The photographer for the 1896 Atlas of Richland County took special pains to document the inside and outside of Oak Hill Cottage in a full page spread of images. One of the pictures captured the library, which had also once served as Dr. Jones office when he saw patients in Mansfield. More than 120 years […]

Mansfield, Ohio is just a small city on the edge of the Midwest, and in many ways it is just like any number of other places on the map, but it has long been one of the unique crossroads of the US, and has a most interesting way of intersecting with American History. One of […]

Westinghouse was a huge factory complex in 1943, and not much of it is left standing today. There is one photo from back then however, that captures a background wall of the Mansfield Works that was standing then and now. The day was a special one for the Mansfield war effort: the Army and Navy […]

Mansfield had quite a few heroes of World War II who made sacrifices on the battlefields of Europe, Africa and the Pacific. It also had heroes of World War II who never left town. The city’s home front heroes were recognized by the United States Army and Navy: pinned with medals, and honored with dignitaries, […]

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 3, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the third in a three-book trilogy. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes Her Tune, while Volume II […]

It is often true that one person’s disappointment is another’s success. In this case it was a photographer who failed to focus the camera on the intended folks in the foreground; but succeeded in capturing the buildings in the background as unintended documentation for historians. The occasion was a parade in 1941. Not just any […]

MANSFIELD — Every year in the middle of October, regular as clockwork, the Earth passes through a field of space debris that fills the night sky with flashing meteors. So, people go out and gaze up at the heavens to enjoy the cosmic show known as the Orionids shower. Anyone who was out watching the […]

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 3, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the third in a three-book trilogy. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes Her Tune, while Volume II […]