Area History

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Aug. 9, 2022. It’s being republished here through a collaborative agreement. DAYTON — Whether you’re traveling by plane for your summer vacation or just watching planes buzz by overhead, remember the two Ohio men who helped make flight possible for humanity. August […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published via a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection. It was originally published on July 29, 2022 by Ohio Memory. July 29, 2022 marked the 249th anniversary of the first schoolhouse in the Ohio country. With the first day of school, quickly approaching, kids may appreciate seeing how […]

A Navy program is bringing home an Ohio sailor who lost his life in the Pearl Harbor tragedy on Dec. 7, 1941. Musician 1st Class Joseph Hoffman, born in Lyndon, Ohio and raised in Chillicothe, Ohio, and who gave his life aboard the USS Oklahoma during the attack of Dec. 7, 1941, will have his […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — Certainly, no one living remembers Dr. Craig, but nearly everyone in town knows his home, and many remember it in different ways. The home, at the corner of Third and Mulberry, was built in 1890 of handmade bricks in a style that […]

FREDERICKTOWN — This vintage postcard captures a great view of downtown Fredericktown, around 1908. Several local businesses are visible, including Johnson & Crowell Farm Implements and Vehicles. A search of period newspapers turns up a few references, including that store co-founder Fred Johnson left in 1911 to take up a job in Columbus working for […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Nov. 18, 2020. Richland Source has a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Just The Facts Content warning: This story includes a brief mention of domestic violence and sexual assault. At the Ohio History Connection, you will […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — Tracing back the history of North Lake Park can be confusing, because the many decades of its existence have seen the place taking on and shedding several different names. As recently as the 1950s, people were still calling it Casino Park, though […]

MANSFIELD — The men that boarded the steamship thought they were leaving the Civil War behind them. They finally felt safe. It was April 1865. The throng of Union soldiers had survived the horrors of war — conflict and captivity, starvation and disease. Now the war was over and they were finally going home.  Hundreds […]

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. DAYTON — Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of America’s greatest poets, spent almost his entire life in Ohio. He published hundreds of poems, as well as novels, […]