Area History

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.

There were three boys in Shelby, Ohio who influenced an entire generation of American kids — and a President of the United States — simply by playing hard in the summertime and doing what 14-year old boys do best: making and dodging trouble. They started out as a little club of boys seen on the […]

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 made its first major step into the Industrial Age when the Aultman Taylor Company located on North Main Street in 1867 to manufacture farm machinery.

This article explores the pages of an improvised scrapbook of baseball memorabilia assembled in 1914 by a schoolboy named Leroy K. In order to fully appreciate the magnitude of this spectacular historic artifact it is helpful to have an understanding of two things:

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 […]

Never doubt that the seeds you plant today could dramatically impact the world of tomorrow. In this case it was not seeds that were sewn exactly, but seedlings.

MANSFIELD — The maps of Richland County from 100 years ago showed a little town about halfway between Lexington and Mansfield, but if you followed the map out there to find the town it could have been puzzling. Because it wasn’t really a town. It was simply a designation established on the map by the […]