Area History

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles by author Paul Lintern. It is set in 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of a young girl.  Amelia was not in her bedroom in Boston. Not in the bedroom at Oakland either. She was […]

The remarkable Galion depot was built in 1900, originally to service the Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad — known to folks back then more simply as the Big Four. In later generations, the railroad line associated with the depot was the New York Central. There are trains still running past this historic landmark […]

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles by author Paul Lintern. It is set in 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of a young girl.  The seagulls were calling from the wharf below. A salty breeze was drifting through the open windows, […]

For most of us today, all the connotations that accompany the idea of Memorial Day at the threshold of summer are pretty happy: fireworks, games, potato salad. In the era almost 150 years ago however, the attendant emotional anticipation was considerably less capricious, far more solemn. That was when the holiday was first established as […]

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles by author Paul Lintern. It is set in 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of a young girl.  To Amelia, it looked like a small army heading to war: Uncle Jacob, his brother John, Isaac […]

When the photographer set up his tripod in the 1890s to capture this image of North Main Street, he was standing in the middle of a traffic lane and his equipment probably straddled a streetcar track. Capturing the same scene today entails considerably much less risk since the camera is a half dozen paces away […]

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles by author Paul Lintern. It is set in 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of a young girl.  Appleseed John was gone by the time Amelia got up the next morning, even though she had […]

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles by author Paul Lintern. It is set in 1831 and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of a young girl. Among the guests that entered the Oakland Inn each night were some rather unusual characters, as Amelia […]

There was a time, and it wasn’t all that long ago, when you could walk down Park Avenue West on a sunny afternoon and hardly set foot in the sun—it was such a cool, shady canyon of a city scape. Today the pavement of Park Avenue downtown dries much more quickly after the rain because […]

MANSFIELD — Mansfield Memorial Museum curator Scott Schaut’s dream of representing the entire Mansfield community is coming to fruition. The Daisy Barker-Thomas/ Corley exhibit is open on the first floor of the museum. “For the first time a display of African-Americans related to Mansfield, post-Civil War to the turn of the century is on display,” […]