EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Feb. 1, 2022. Richland Source is part of a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share history content at our respective sites. This President’s Day, programs at the Ohio History Center include a live presentation and several documentaries about the […]
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Then & Now: The Women’s Club 1928
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. It was the home of Mr. & Mrs. Hedges since the 1840s. But Henry passed in 1914 and a decade later when his wife Lucretia left the earth, she stipulated in her will that the house was to become the home for the […]
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William Henry Harrison, 1st president from Ohio, had shortest stint in office
Editor’s Note This is the second in a nine-part series looking at Ohio’s history of presidents. Some of the information was gleaned from a kit provided by the Ohio Historical Society released in 1967 titled “Portraits of Ohio Presidents.” Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Part […]
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Corner store on Chestnut & South Main: 1975
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Mansfield used to be full of little “Mom & Pop” neighborhood stores. This is one of them on the corner of South Main and Chestnut Streets. This one started in the 1920s and mom and pop were Mrs. and Mr. Woodard who had […]
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Ohio’s history in the presidency is abundant, if undistinguished
Editor’s Note This is the first in a nine-part series looking at Ohio’s history of presidents. Some of the information was gleaned from a kit provided by the Ohio Historical Society released in 1967 titled “Portraits of Ohio Presidents.” Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. History […]
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Reaping for others to sow: Carrie Williams Clifford
This story was originally published on Jan. 24, 2022 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Like many black women involved in early activism, poet, civil rights activist and suffragist Carrie Williams Clifford has frequently been overlooked within the […]
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Take this 1913 test to see if you could become a Knox County school teacher
MOUNT VERNON — Browsing through an old local newspaper, I came across an interesting item to share. The Feb. 4, 1913, issue of the Democratic Banner contains an article sharing the examination that had just been given to applicants wishing to get a county certification for teaching in Knox County. This was the test that […]
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The Star Theatre 1919
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. If you wanted to take in a movie in the summer of 1919 all you had to do was stroll down North Main, not far from Fourth Street, and fork over a nickel at the Star Theatre. That year you could have seen […]
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Learning about Mary Church Terrell is a good place to start Black History Month in Ohio
This story was originally published on Jan. 5, 2022 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Writer, suffragist and Black activist Mary Church Terrell was born Sept. 23, 1863, in Memphis, Tennessee. Daughter to enslaved Louisa Ayers and Robert […]