EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. If you go to the State of Connecticut, and travel as far south as it is possible to go within the state — to where you’re standing with your toes in the Long Island Sound — and then face due west and start walking […]
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Early Fredericktown photo is complete with stovepipe hat & bull
FREDERICKTOWN — One of the fun things about new technologies is people like to play with them and see what they can make the new gadgets do. That has given us a great photographic record of the mid to late 1800s, the early years of photography. Amateur and professional photographers both roamed the countryside to […]
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The Panic of 1893 was a 4-year economic crisis
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. The Panic of 1893 was a national economic crisis set off by the collapse of two of the country’s largest employers, the Philadelphia and […]
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Born in Ohio, aerial application turns 100 on Aug. 3
August 3rd is the 100th anniversary of an important event backing up Ohio’s claim as the “Birthplace of Aviation.” In 1921, less than two decades after the Wright Brothers became the first to achieve powered flight, another milestone in aviation history occurred 20 miles from the Dayton bicycle shop where Wilbur and Orville invented the […]
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Then & Now: Main Street at Sixth
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Back in the 1930s, if you wanted a Dodge the place to go was Main Street in the first block south of Sixth. Go there today and you will simply dodge traffic racing to get through the light.
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Emma “Grandma” Gatewood became Ohio’s most famous hiker
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on April 28, 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. “Why?” It’s the simple one-word question that has been so hard for humanity to answer for probably as long as […]
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Jumbo comes to Mansfield: 1883
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Local history always has much to say about those occasions when famous people come to town — national leaders, celebrities and presidents. But what happens when the most famous animal in the world comes to town? The answer is: all the businesses and […]
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Ray Holifield was Akron’s radio sleuth
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 2, 2017 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. “Suppose Mr. Jones, after a hard day in the office … curls contentedly in his favorite chair to… hear via radio […]
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Ed Sorgen drew crowds like a magnet to Mansfield
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. In 1930 Mansfield was a Mecca for suffering people from all over the Midwest who came here by the thousands to be made well by a man whose fame spread far and wide for his powers of ‘magnetic healing.’ Crowds would pour into […]
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Take a glimpse at Ohio’s early Appalachian landscape through the lens of Albert J. Ewing
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on July 27, 2017 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. it’s not difficult to document the world today. Storage space is cheap, and opportunity cost is practically nonexistent. Cameras and computers […]