Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 19, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Annie Glenn, a respected advocate for people with communicative disorders and wife of former astronaut and statesman John Glenn, died on May 19, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2015. ANKNEYTOWN — If you drive south of Bellville on the Ankneytown Road, right after you leave Richland County and right before you hit Ohio 95 you’ll pass through the little hamlet of Ankneytown. In the old country a ‘hamlet’ became a ‘village’ when it […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 24, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Did you know that archivists sometimes need to use other archives to research our own collections? Archives are a large network of available […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. This is a decoration to the memory of a Richland County veteran — a simple wreath trimmed in carnations and roses. Memorial Day was known for a century as Decoration Day, a time to decorate the graves of America’s soldiers, and this will […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Aug. 23, 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. I’m Leslie Wagner, the Historian at The Dawes Arboretum in Newark. The Dawes Arboretum was established in 1929 by Beman and Bertie […]

BELLVILLE — It’s not every day those buried in a cemetery can stroll through the rows of headstones and converse with their visitors. But that’s exactly what happened Saturday morning during the Cemetery Walk in Bellville. Deceased residents of the village returned to life in the form of actors who shared their story. “Every year […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. When Mansfield was first laid out in its initial shape in 1808, the southwest corner of town ended at the top of a hill, and Mulberry Street stopped there because of the deep gully where Ritter’s Run flowed. It wasn’t until 1909 that […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Aug. 31, 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. September 10 marks the 208th anniversary of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie. […]

LOUDONVILLE — Loudonville was once home to a potato chip factory, known as Corell’s. Around 1937, Wilbur Corell and his parents opened Corell’s Potato Chips in Strasburg. The business did well, but Wilbur went off to the war and when he returned he settled in Mansfield while his parents and brother continued the family operation. […]