Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on April 28, 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. In Penn Township, Highland County, Ohio, there lies a settlement so small that it does not appear on every map. […]

History was always my favorite subject in school. I minored in it in college, and have found it fascinating since my grandmother introduced me to a book on the history of U.S. Presidents shortly after I learned to read. I still have it, tattered and torn, but it reminds me of where this obsession began. […]

MCKAY — Robert Wilson, of McKay, was a conductor along the Underground Railroad. Wilson was a farmer who built a two-room log cabin south of McKay in 1831. He was believed to join the Underground Railroad effort in 1850, stowing runaways in his barn underneath the hay. The first runaways to arrive at the Wilson […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Ask any farmer in the county and they will tell you: having the best land, the strongest crops, the healthiest livestock doesn’t mean anything if you can’t sell what you produce. That was the challenge, plain and simple, for farmers in the days […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan. 17, 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. Each year we celebrate the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a national holiday. Many of us […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. There are two very prominent and pivotal figures from Black history in America who both had occasion to come to Mansfield in different centuries, and their experiences in finding overnight accommodations here were as different as black and white. If Frederick Douglass or […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Aug. 13, 2018 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Towards the end of 1863, as the Civil War tightened its hold on the United States, Ohio Governor David Tod began […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Speeding by on Route 309 you are passing the site of some really fascinating Richland County history.  In the stretch between Mansfield and Ontario, just west of the Home Road bridge, this farm is easily seen on the north side of the highway.  […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan. 25, 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. On Aug. 6, 1971, a group of women known as the Toledo Troopers began playing in the Women’s Professional Football League. […]