Area History

I have gone around that corner a thousand times, and it was nothing but a sharp curve in the road until the day when an old man told me the story behind the field there where the road turns. Before then I had never even noticed that piece of ground, but since then there hasn’t […]

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 2, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the summer of 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the second in a three-book trilogy. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes […]

MANSFIELD — There really was no mistaking a city school building in the 1800s. In that distant age the value of education was so highly esteemed among the advantages of American democracy that the image of community schools was second in stature only to that of churches. The churches were stone; the schools, though constructed […]

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 2, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the summer of 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the second in a three-book trilogy. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes […]

LEXINGTON — Lexington’s 19th century heritage as a pastoral country village is well documented in this photo taken on West Main Street in 1880. Most of the buildings in the old image were gone long before anyone living today can remember, so it is difficult to image whether or not they would have been missed. […]

Richland County has often been a significant crossroad of the nation as an intriguing intersection of American history and culture. So it is not surprising that many extraordinary characters of US legend have passed through this corridor of the country, and left their footprints in the dust of our particular thoroughfares. One of the most […]

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 2, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the summer of 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the second in a three-book trilogy. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes […]

A century ago Fleming Falls was a major tourist attraction of Richland County. Located off Fleming Falls Road, not far from Route 42, the resort area attracted so many visitors in 1913 that there was an Interurban streetcar stop designated nearby just to accommodate tourists. Today the falls and the old original resort lodge are […]