Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on April 14, 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. We do not know everything there is to know about many photographs in our Archives & Library, but occasionally we are […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. Tree-lined brick streets and Model T Fords: that was downtown Mansfield in the 1920s.  St. Luke’s stood on the point at the five-way intersection of Park Avenue, Marion, Bowman and Sturges, as it still does today, a still point around which flows traffic […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 1, 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. Herbert Jude Score was born June 7, 1933 in Rosedale, Queens, New York. He’s best known as a talented Cleveland […]

LOUDONVILLE — On Dec. 17 2007, the Loudonville Uglification Committee took steps to “maintain the town’s unpleasant appearance,” by preserving a pile of overflowing garbage bags. The decision, and the committee, were both the imagination of The Onion, a world-renown satirical newspaper. Loudonville made its first known appearance in the international publication with this comical […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. There is really only one iconic image that has consistently represented Mansfield throughout the greatest part of its history, and that is the Blockhouse. There are other very familiar likenesses of places that can serve as a community identifier — like Kingwood, Oak […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 1, 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. In the long fight to achieve women’s suffrage in the United States, Ohio, and more importantly Ohio women played an important […]

LOUDONVILLE — The Mohican area once had its own gold rush, about 130 years ago. Southern Richland County, particularly around Bellville and Butler, had multiple documented gold findings in the 1800s. In 1905 another discovery, near Butler, was reported. According to the Loudonville Democrat, “F.C. Norman came north from North Carolina [in 1904] and began […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. The building on the south side of the Square we know today as the Coney has been a restaurant for a long time, but it was originally conceived as a furniture store and funeral parlor. The urban brick structure was built by the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally publilshed on Aug. 27, 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. I became interested in the women’s suffrage movement in my hometown of Shelby, Ohio after seeing a newspaper article in the […]

LOUDONVILLE — If you don’t know the exploits of Frank Ellis, take a moment to appreciate the part he played in American military history. A former Loudonville resident and employee of the Flxible Company, Ellis was a highly decorated veteran of World War I, and his exploits in the war were fit for a novel. […]