Area History

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. It is being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. The Underground Railroad was a system of safe houses and hiding places that helped freedom seekers along their journey to freedom in Canada, Mexico, and elsewhere outside of the United States. White and […]

Inside the Sherman Room This story is from Mary McKinley, who operates the Sherman Room at the Mansfield Richland County Public Library. The Sherman Room is a treasure trove of local historical content. For more of Mary’s posts, blogs, and content, be sure to check out this link. MANSFIELD — Women’s History Month is fast […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. The old Roseland School stood at the intersection of Springmill Street and Trimble Road until the mid-1930s when the district was consolidated with the Mansfield City Schools. Students moved to a city school for about a decade until the new Roseland School opened […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on July 17, 2012. It’s being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. Perhaps you’ve heard of the story re-energized more than a decade ago about a former slave named Jordan Anderson. Anderson was a on a Tennessee plantation before he was freed […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. There is a certain haunting quality in the cry of a passing train. That element — evoking the past through an echo that is alive and vital in the present — is very much the spirit of Crestline. The word ‘spirit’ comes from […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Feb. 24, 2011. It is being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. COLUMBUS — February is Black History month.  As a tribute, we now look back on some of the African Americans who have made a significant impact on Ohio […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Jan. 23. It is being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. The John and Annie Glenn Collection at the Ohio History Connection captures both the public and private sides of the Glenn family. One of my favorite light-hearted series of items are […]

FREDERICKTOWN — My latest collectible discovery is what paper collectors call an RPPC: a real photo postcard. Unlike mass-production postcards, RPPCs were typically made locally by a photographer who would take a picture and then develop it onto card stock, which could then be mailed. In 1903, the Kodak company came out with a camera […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Tough talk and shady characters from the underclass of real life — bums, prostitutes, circus roadies, boxing-ring losers — are a tradition in American literature made popular by famous authors like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Raw, gritty and brutally honest: that’s what this […]