Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Those people who keep a finger on the pulse of the natural landscape outside the confines of our neighborhoods have expressed increasing concern in recent years about certain forces in play which degrade the quality of our Richland County woods and meadows. We […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is Part 4 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. Logan, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. If the name Voegele is vaguely familiar then you probably have lived in Mansfield. If you know to pronounce Voegele the same as ‘vaguely’ then you have identified yourself as a local. The Voegele Building on North Main Street is a well-known landmark […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is Part 3 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. Cornstalk was chief of the Shawnee who first settled in the Scioto Valley. […]

FREDERICKTOWN — It was that time of year when the night starts coming faster, and the clouds seem to hang a little lower in the sky. This particular evening was more harshly cold than usual, a crisp fall evening with a little bite to it. Roger Smith was driving on Ohio 13, headed toward his […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Since Mansfield is increasingly recognized across America by paranormalists as a principle destination for ghost hunting, it is perhaps appropriate the city should be a nexus, as well, for other manifestations of the Undead. The evidence for this requires no special electromagnetic field […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is Part 2 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. Little Turtle was born in Indiana in 1752 […]

FREDERICKTOWN — Meet Orin Bishop. He’s the writer of the 1913 postcard featured in a previous History Knox column. The text of the card told us only that it was sent to Galen Bishop in Columbus from the family home near Fredericktown. Clues in the message allowed readers to puzzle out the location of the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. For most biographical subjects of history, a timeline is pretty unequivocal: somebody is born; they live their story; and then their life is over. Once it has ended, it’s officially history. But there are some elements of the past that, as far as […]