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Loudonville native arranged music for Lawrence Welk Show
LOUDONVILLE — In 1948, Loudonville native Paul Weirick, best known as the music arranger for the Lawrence Welk Show, introduced his showbiz friends to a taste of his hometown. Weirick wrote “Hollywood Square Dance,” covered by the likes of Sammy Kaye and Vera Lynne, and brought a little country to Los Angeles. Paul’s friends in […]
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Victory at the Klondike Derby: 1972
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. First thing you have to know is, there were a lot of clever, talented, handy Scouts in our troop but none of them were in my patrol. Our Scoutmaster had kind of stacked the deck: all the good looking, intelligent boys with a […]
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History recognizes the changes in the murder of Emmett Till
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan 23, 2019 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Content Warning: This post contains discussions of racial violence and sexaul assault. It may not be appropriate for younger readers. […]
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Train derailment near Perrysville described as incident of “monumental proportions”
PERRYSVILLE — Train derailments were huge stories a century ago, when there was far more traffic on the rails than there is today. So, when a train derailment described of “monumental proportions” occurred on July 7, 1927 just west of the railroad crossing at Perrysville, near the old bridge span of State Route 95, it […]
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The Richland Album: Bandstands
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. This is the law of time: for every hour we go on there is an hour that slips behind, so that for every bit of gain there is equal loss. In order to enter the future we must relinquish the past — the […]
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“And a Kiss for Little May:” The Civil War Letters of Amos Gillis
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on July 24, 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. Have you heard of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI), a regiment organized during the Civil War? Maybe not, but […]
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City of Shelby awarded grant to digitize records dating from 1863
SHELBY — The city of Shelby has been awarded a $2,967 grant through the Ohio History Fund to digitize and transcribe approximately 5,800 pages of city council minutes, incorporation records and ordinances dating from 1863 through 1934. Only 14 applications of 49 submitted were awarded funding. The 13 volumes containing these records are fragile and […]
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Gatherings between Clear Fork & Black Fork residents led to a brawling good time
MANSFIELD — In the early settlement days of Richland County (which at the time included Loudonville and Perrysville) there was an intense — and only somewhat friendly — rivalry between the settlers along the Clear Fork and Black Fork rivers. According to A.A. Graham, “These two regions were always at enmity, and always getting up […]
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Then & Now: World War I soldier in the snow 1926
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. There are a couple of old diehard soldiers who have been standing watch over the Square in Mansfield for a long time. One of them is the infantryman from World War I who came to town in 1922 to memorialize Richland County boys […]