Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in 2014 on Richland Source. We called them ‘Shrine Barns.’ No doubt this was because we weren’t farmers, we were amateur architects and art historians. These are barns that have white painted arches on their doors — arches like the round Romanesque arch you find on a shrine […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Sept. 17, 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. President Warren Harding died suddenly in 1923 while on a much-publicized trip to Alaska and the West Coast. He was […]

PERRYSVILLE — Jedediah Smith, who grew up in Perrysville, opened the west and changed the course of American history. In 1823, 24-year-old Jedediah Smith was leading a trapping party into Wyoming and overwintered with a tribe of friendly Crows. These natives told Jedediah of a gap between the mighty Rocky Mountains that would allow him […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. In autumn of 1931 the sign appealing for public humanitarian support was placed at the west side of the Square facing Park Avenue West. Today it can be found at the other end of the Square, high on the Richland Community Service Center […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Dec. 22, 2010 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. This particular piece was also enhanced with relevant data about Coshocton attorney Noah Haynes Swayne, the second Supreme Court Justice from […]

LOUDONVILLE — On Oct. 18, 1973, north central Ohio residents witnessed strange lights in the sky to the west over Charles Mill Lake. The next morning they were shocked to hear that they weren’t the only ones — a military helicopter flying near Mansfield also reported the lights in what is now known as the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. It was the end of the 1800s, when a gentleman in Mansfield saw the century and his youth and our country’s history slipping away.  In 1896 it had been more than 30 years since the Civil War, and the men who bore arms […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in June, 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. “The Secret Service men are a very small but very necessary thorn in the flesh.” – Theodore Roosevelt, 1906 As 1914 […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — If you have never taken the time to study the walls of the sanctuary in St. Peter’s Church on Mulberry Street, then you are most likely not aware of one of Mansfield’s finest art treasures that is always on display in […]