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 […]
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Loudonville’s Century House was rumored to be a stop on the Underground Railroad
LOUDONVILLE — One of the oldest houses in the Loudonville area is the “Century House,” located on State Route 3 at the Mohican Adventures campground. The house is constructed of two-foot thick native sandstone blocks, and believed to have been built around 1840. It was a rumored one-time stop on the Underground Railroad while owned […]
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Native Son: Richland County’s Season of Blue Baseball in 1906
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — They were called Blue Laws. There are a dozen speculations about where that name came from, but none of them sound particularly convincing, that’s just what they have been called since the 1600s in Colonial America. The Blue Laws regulated what […]
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A century of sliders, The White Castle story
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on March 10, 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. When Walt Anderson and Billy Ingram opened the first White Castle restaurant in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921, hamburgers were not […]
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Here’s the meaning behind the lyrics of Yankee Doodle Dandy
ASHLAND — Many of us are familiar with the catchy tune Yankee Doodle which starts out “Yankee Doodle went to town a-riding on a pony, stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni…” This little melody is still known today as a patriotic and fun children’s song. But who was Yankee Doodle and […]
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Painting on the walls: Murals of downtown Mansfield since 1880
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2017. Ever since the Upper Paleolithic epoch of history, communities of human beings all over the planet have been painting pictures on the walls. Mansfield humans have been engaged in this movement of public pictorial expression for roughly 140 years. Our city has a […]
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Newark woman set 7 records in 1964 worldwide flight
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published Aug. 17, 2015 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. When you think of famous pilots from Ohio, what names come to mind? The Wright Brothers? Maybe Eddie Rickenbacker? Or Amelia […]
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Richland Album: Covered Bridges on the Forks of the Mohican
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. In the horse-drawn era a covered bridge was a welcome refuge when the storm hit. Certainly cattle knew that and, given the opportunity they clustered underneath the bridge or even inside… because it looked like a barn. The threat of hidden animals lurking […]