Area History

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. There is a famous statue on the lawn in front of the Ohio Statehouse you may have seen — it’s known as the “These Are My Jewels” monument. It is an ornamental column surrounded by seven men, from the top of which arises […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. About a hundred years ago, when you rode into Mansfield on the train and looked up at the ‘City on a Hill,’ one of the most striking aspects of the skyline was the predominance of church steeples. From the Square you could easily […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. An interesting storefront on Main Street that was hidden by siding for many years is once again in the light — and so it is easier to compare with images of that Mansfield block from earlier decades. The Kobacker Room of DLX is […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. So maybe somebody said you came from a jerkwater town and maybe that sounds like an insult to you. But do you know where the expression came from? How wrapped up it is in the early railroading lore of American History? And how, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. (A place so grand as Kingwood deserves its epic legend, and a story that big necessarily throws deeper shadows in all directions to give it more dimension. What we know of C.K. King in the 1920s survives only in the ephemeral media of memories, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. For the last several generations — and a whole lifetime for most of us — the postcard view of Mansfield is a scenic and flower-laden portrait of the Hall at Kingwood. By any standards it’s an astonishing jewel to crown a city the […]