Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. I had to wait until it snowed before I could write this. It is a memory that is awakened only by snow. Every year when the atmosphere turns suddenly thick and dark with falling snow, so that the neighborhood gets more three-dimensional as […]

This story was originally published on Dec. 14, 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. Have you ever received a Christmas card from your mail carrier? Left a holiday tip for the paper boy? As the end of […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2018. There was one year in the 1970s when it got really cold early enough in the winter season so that by holiday vacation the lakes were already frozen solid. It seemed too good to miss, so we made plans to meet on Christmas […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is the conclusion of a series on Ohio’s great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. The following is a chronology of the known history of Native American Indians in […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2017. Decorating downtown Mansfield for the winter holidays has always involved some sort of evergreenery. In 1914, as seen in this photo postcard, there were ribbons of it draped over the Main Street arches. In 1930 there were long ropes of it strung between […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is Part 9 in a 9-part series on Ohio’s great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Tishcohan (or He Who Never Blackens Himself) was a chief of the Delaware […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by Richland Source in 2017. This is the law of time: for every hour we go on there is an hour that slips behind, so that for every bit of gain there is equal loss. In order to enter the future we must relinquish the past. As each […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is Part 8 in a 9-part series on Ohio’s great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Tecumseh was one of the greatest statesmen and warriors of the Shawnee people. […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. This was once the first fact of life in Mansfield: any kid who wants a bike should have one. That is why Toy Time was such an honored and loved undertaking for so many years. It started in the early 1930s when the […]