Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is Part 7 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. Colonel Lewis, or Quatawapea (The man on the water who sinks and rises […]

LOUDONVILLE — The Cline Cabin at Mohican State Park was originally built on a hill, circa 1863, by German immigrant Constantine Cline. The cabin continued to house generations of Cline descendants until 1947 when it was sold to the State of Ohio to be incorporated into the Mohican-Memorial State Forest. At that point, the cabin […]

FREDERICKTOWN — Long before alcohol prohibition was tried in the 1920s — and disastrously failed, I might add — the anti- alcohol temperance movement had many advocates. When those advocates were not able to achieve their ends politically, sometimes they took to dramatic action to score their point. One of the most remarkable temperance movement […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in 2015 on Richland Source. Say you went to have dinner at the Wishmaker House and somehow you stepped through a time portal and wound up in 1909 – where would you be? You would be eating dinner as the guest of Mrs. E. Stofer of Bellville, Ohio, […]

LOUDONVILLE — Happy Thanksgiving to all! In 1938, the 182 men of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Co. 1570, encamped at Mohican Forest, celebrated Thanksgiving together in their barracks and mess hall. The menu consisted of roasted turkey fresh from the forest, with a sage dressing, hearts of celery, mixed pickles, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, candied […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is Part 6 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. Part 1 focused on the Six Nations. Part 2 profiled Little Turtle. Part […]

MANSFIELD — A small audience of curious people gathered Thursday evening in Founders Auditorium on the campus the Mansfield branch of The Ohio State University to catch a rare glimpse of a work shelved for the last 86 years. The piece was “De Luxe,” a play written by Louis Bromfield and John Gearon. It played […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2013. It is one of those annual rituals of nature, coming around in the autumn as the Richland County Earth makes its yearly bow toward the polar north; inexorable as Daylight Savings Time, and bound into the fabric of tradition like the gathering of […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is Part 5 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. Part 1 focused on the Six Nations. Part 2 profiled Little Turtle. Part 3 examined Cornstalk. Part […]