There isn’t a lot left of the famous rock garden at the Ohio State Reformatory — it looks like a broken memory; half-remembered fragments of something that happened long ago. That’s exactly what it is. The long ago was 1930, when the first stones were moved into place, and there are some fairly amazing headline […]
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Louis Bromfield and The Farm
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Throughout Mansfield’s long history there have been a great many artists whose works have focused on the city in one way or another. This series of articles collects portraits of our town created in different decades by painters, novelists, playwrights, composers, poets and […]
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Louis Bromfield and The Farm
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Throughout Mansfield’s long history there have been a great many artists whose works have focused on the city in one way or another. This series of articles collects portraits of our town created in different decades by painters, novelists, playwrights, composers, poets and […]
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Ohio’s landscape of flowers inspires a mosaic of colorful quilt designs
Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on May 16, 2022. It is being published here through a collaborative agreement to share content between this outlet and the Ohio History Connection. COLUMBUS — “It is impossible to imagine a world without flowers. The most arid of urban landscapes, the driest of […]
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Loudonville speaker to discuss World War II invasion of North Africa on Nov. 21
LOUDONVILLE — The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum in Loudonville continues its Speaker Series on Monday, Nov. 21 with a retrospective look at Operation Torch, the 1942 allied invasion of North Africa during the second World War. Operation Torch resulted from an uneasy compromise between the Western Allies, including opposition from the Joint Chiefs of Staff […]
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A view from history: Mansfield’s arches
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 The Sherman Room is a treasure trove of local historical content.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. Last week we looked at the Feast […]
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Then & Now: Mansfield Carnegie Library 1908
Mansfield’s charming Carnegie Library was built in 1908 on Third Street, and Mansfielders came to love it so much through the years that they refused to pass any library expansion levy until the plan was drawn that would keep the old building intact as part of the enlarged facility. A “Temple of Learning” was how […]
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Remembering North Lake boathouse in 1945
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — When the streams of Toby’s Run were ponded into the body of water called North Lake in 1888, a new sporting pastime was born in Mansfield: the opportunity to go boating. Through the following generations the lake had a whole fleet […]
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Remembering North Lake boathouse in 1945
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — When the streams of Toby’s Run were ponded into the body of water called North Lake in 1888, a new sporting pastime was born in Mansfield: the opportunity to go boating. Through the following generations the lake had a whole fleet […]
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Raising the bar: Remembering women’s football with the Columbus Pacesetters
Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on May 2, 2022. It is being published here through a collaborative agreement to share content between this outlet and the Ohio History Connection. COLUMBUS — Women have played football in Ohio for decades. In 1965, women’s football teams from Akron and Cleveland […]