Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 20, 2011 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Who was the youngest soldier from Ohio to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War? In our post of […]

LOUDONVILLE — Weidner Motor Sales in Loudonville caused quite a stir in 1949 when the company added a well-known celebrity to its customer list. Pete Weidner, owner, was a friend of Pulitzer prize winning novelist Louis Bromfield, who built and lived at Malabar Farm on the other side of Perrysville. Weidner often visited Bromfield on […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — The holidays are always a special time in the city. Decorations color the streets and there’s excitement in the air, particularly for children and their parents. It’s been that way for a long time. Both of these images are the same […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 19, 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. Under the shadow of nightfall on Oct. 16, 1859 (that’s 161 years ago this fall), famous (or infamous, depending on who […]

BUTLER — The Mohican area is well known for Lyons Falls, but the area is also home to the lesser-known Hemlock Falls located between Perrysville and Butler. Hemlock Falls was an early meeting spot for locals, even hosting the first Richland County pioneer meeting in 1856. It was named by Roeliff Brinkerhoff, editor of the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. In November of 1900 there was a great funeral in Mansfield when Secretary of State John Sherman died. Governmental dignitaries from Washington and all over the United States descended on the city to lay him to rest. President William McKinley, an Ohioan, was […]

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. DAYTON — The Grotto Gardens has been the site of a national center for veterans’ services since Abraham Lincoln approved the establishment of the National […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. There is so much written about Johnny Appleseed, it’s hard to think there is anything new to say. Yet I have long known something about the man that I have never seen anyone talk about before. It doesn’t concern where he traveled, or […]

LOUDONVILLE — On Feb. 22, 1853 the first train passed through Loudonville. It ran along the newly built Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad. The depot was built on North Water Street and would soon witness over 100 trains passing through on a daily basis, though only seven would stop to load and unload passengers. Eventually, two […]