Area History

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2014 on Richland Source. The Administration Building at the Ohio Brass Company was brand new when this photo was taken in 1928 for one of their catalogs.  Founded in 1888 as a small foundry with 20 workers on 2 floors downtown, the Brass prospered tremendously during the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 11, 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 will let you in on a little secret. The staff at the Ohio History Center have a Wednesday Walk […]

LOUDONVILLE — Before Kettering and Flxible’s rise to fame that put Loudonville on the map, another inventor and businessman attempted to leave his mark on the world by building an empire in his hometown. In 1907 Dr. Cyrus L. Buckwalter, a Civil War veteran and Loudonville resident, filed a patent for an “airship” that he […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. The Whippets have since moved their football games to behind the Shelby High School complex. SHELBY — The Shelby Whippets take the field every autumn as a heritage transcending many generations in the city’s history. Though school buildings rise and fall through the decades, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 4, 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 January of 1919, the 18th Amendment was ratified. On Jan. 17, 1920 it went into effect with the passage of […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published at Richland Source in 2014. The American Bison is always considered iconic of the Wild West, but it also played an integral role in the history of the Wild East as well.  If it wasn’t for the many thousands of years when the buffalo roamed through Richland County […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on March 19, 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. This blog post will take a look at a historic pandemic in Ohio. As our lives change to fight COVID-19, […]

LOUDONVILLE — In 1951 the Perrysville Admirals six-man gridiron gang turned in a storybook season. The squad, coached by superintendent Merle Hunter, was coming off of an unimpressive 2-4 season in 1950, but did have nine lettermen returning for the ’51 campaign: Ed Applegate, Franklin Cates, Russell Easterday, Ralph Lozier, John Mann, Dick Peterson, Charles […]

LOUDONVILLE — In 1961, Dick Frye introduced the idea of canoe rentals to Ohio when he opened The Mohican Canoe Livery south of Loudonville. The livery was situated at the confluence of the Clear Fork and Black Fork rivers, near the intersection of State Routes 3 and 97. The business started out with 14 aluminum […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. If you have ever taken a walk in the woods at Malabar Farm State Park, you already know there is a kind of magic and natural restorative charm under the high canopy of beech-oak forest. What you may not know is that along with […]