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The life & afterlife of Davey Field
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. If you study baseball, and you study history, you begin to understand that both of these subjects are totally shaped and sustained by the same element of our existence: the element of time. Because there is no clock in baseball, it is easy […]
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Newark’s Johnny Clem joined the Union Army at age 11 during the Civil War
Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has a collaborative agreement to share content across our sites. Johnny Clem was a soldier in the service of the United States for most of his life. He was born on Aug. 13, 1851, in Newark, Ohio. His actual name was […]
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Mary McKinley sorts Richland County history at The Sherman Room
Editor’s Note The Sherman Room in Mansfield/Richland County Public Library seeks the public’s help. It needs a copy of the 1975, 1976 & 1978 Manhigan (Mansfield Sr.’s yearbook). Anyone willing to donate or loan a copy to be scanned & hosted online would be helpful. MANSFIELD — The Sherman Room at the Mansfield/Richland County Public […]
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Reflections: A pilgrimage to Mohican & the Ohio Memorial Shrine in 1947
In 1945 the end of the World War II was in sight, and forward-looking folks were pondering the massive task before them of coming to terms with the tremendous burden of grief that overshadowed the country after 400,000 military deaths. Quick fixes and short-sighted measures might get the U.S. through the immediate aftermath of such […]
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Park Avenue at Main has changed from 1949 to today
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — 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 cityscape. […]
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Park Avenue at Main has changed from 1949 to today
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — 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 cityscape. […]
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Ohio’s sporadic Indian Wars stretched into the 18th Century
Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered a collaborative agreement to share content across our sites. The Ohio Indian Wars were a series of struggles between settlers from the newly independent United States and American Indian residents of the Ohio Country in the years after the […]
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Ashland County Fair’s Buckeye Barn to become a historical center
ASHLAND — The Ashland County Fair has begun utilizing the historic Buckeye Barn to be a historical center with a focus on the agricultural history of the county. The currently red painted barn is located on the west side of the fairgrounds which has historically been close to the racetrack. Over the years, the unique […]
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Then & Now in Mansfield: Fourth & Weldon from 1896
MANSFIELD — Historical Hide & Seek in downtown Mansfield often works like this: We find a picture taken by a photographer in the 1800s who was capturing a building that seemed interesting enough at the time to document. We take the photo to the site intending to capture the same scene today. We discover that […]