Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2015. SHELBY — People cry at weddings. They cry when folks die. Tears accompany bookmarks in time: events consequential enough that we mark chapters in our lives as happening before or after them. Two significant bookmarks we see in our communities are weddings and deaths. […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 25, 2021 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Several years ago, a colleague and I were talking to a patron in the Archives Library of the Ohio History Center. She […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. When you’re driving toward downtown Mansfield on Lexington Avenue and get stopped at that light where it meets South Main, and you’re casting your gaze idly around the intersection waiting for traffic to resume, this is the old house that will catch your […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 25, 2021 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. This story originally appeared in the July/August 2018 edition of Echoes Magazine, the OHC’s member publication. For info about membership, visit ohiohistory.org/join. Ohio […]

MOUNT VERNON — It’s common enough to hear about the first White settler in Knox County, Andrew Craig, who settled on the banks of the Kokosing just east of where downtown Mount Vernon is today in the early 1800s. But Craig was almost instantly followed by other adventurers committed to the idea of carving out […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. It started out innocently enough. In 1886 JC Woley approached Henry Hedges downtown and asked if he could dig a hole on some land Hedges inherited on the east end of First Street down by the tracks. He promised to put the dirt […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Aug. 10, 2021 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. This story originally appeared in the July/August 2018 edition of Echoes Magazine, the OHC’s member publication. For info about membership, visit ohiohistory.org/join. In […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. For most of Mansfield’s history the mainstay of its economic vitality has been industrial manufacturing, and for roughly 100 years of that time — from the 1880s to the 1990s — nearly all of the factories that put our city on the map […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 16, 2015 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Do you remember the Lusitania, the ship that almost sank U.S. neutrality during the First World War? May 7, 1915, was a […]