Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Anticipation ran high for the opening of O’neil’s in time for Christmas shopping in 1946, and workmen worked around the clock for weeks remodeling the old building to be ready to open the doors. They were expecting a crowd of no fewer than […]
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Here are 7 historic sites in Ohio to visit this winter
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Dec. 19, 2022 by the Ohio History Connection. It is being republished on this site via a collaborative agreement. Cold weather and shorter days often give me a case of cabin fever. My grandmother used to say that she was feeling shack wacky. Whatever you call it, […]
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Colonel Crawford’s army marched through the history of Roseland
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Let’s say you grew up in the Little Kentucky/Roseland area of Mansfield and for all you know the neighborhood as you’ve experienced it seems pretty ordinary, not-very-inspiring, dull. Yet if you were exposed to one interesting and critical moment of American History, the […]
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Public domain makes artistic works available published in 1927 & before
Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Dec. 30, 2022. It is being republished here via a collaborative agreement. Under U.S. copyright law, works published in 1927 enter the public domain in the United States on Jan. 1, 2023, when they can be freely performed, adapted, and otherwise used […]
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The Bookmobile has its roots in 1920s Richland County
Editor’s Note This story was originally published by Richland Source in 2015. Richland County is fortunate to have nine locations of the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library, so that from any corner of the land there is a cultural resource within reach. These branches came into existence only in the last 30 to 40 years. Before […]
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Mansfield’s 1st murder of the century: Sternbaum trial of 1954
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — For people who love to read hard-boiled murder mysteries, or go to the movies and watch dark plots of crime and suspense, the decade following World War II was a golden era of cliffhangers. Just in time to embody that national […]
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Mansfield’s 1st murder of the century: Sternbaum trial of 1954
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — For people who love to read hard-boiled murder mysteries, or go to the movies and watch dark plots of crime and suspense, the decade following World War II was a golden era of cliffhangers. Just in time to embody that national […]
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U.S. Grant’s humble school beginnings in Ohio laid a foundation for future greatness
Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. GEORGETOWN, Ohio — If Ulysses S. Grant were alive today, he would be surprised to hear that the first school he attended as a boy in […]
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A unique Christmas truce in 1914 momentarily halted World War I hostilities
Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Dec. 5, 2018. It is being republished here via a collaborative agreement. World War I was one of the most destructive events in human history. Over the course of the four year conflict (1914 to 1918), around 10 million military personnel lost […]
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From 1895 to today, Engwiller’s became Artspace
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. If you go to this address today — on Main Street just a few doors north of Fourth — you’ll find a classy little art gallery. But if you had visited the same building 100 years ago, you would have been at the […]