Area History

There are many chapters of our local story that have directly participated in our national story; when significant people or events of American History have originated from, or been influenced by, or passed through Mansfield. One of these stories happened in 1894, when a nationwide movement of desperately out-of-work men marched to Washington DC in […]

You’ve never met these people, you’ve never seen their house… but it’s possible you may have walked up their front steps. At Malabar Farm State Park there is a high and secluded meadow with forested hills known as Up Ferguson Way.  That name has stayed with the place ever since 1819 when the first Ferguson […]

‘Up Ferguson Way’ is a high ridge of forest and fields, riding the rim between Pleasant Valley and the valley of the Clear Fork River; on land that is a part of Malabar Farm State Park. It was given that name by author Louis Bromfield when he established Malabar Farm in 1939; though he said […]

It has been more than 200 years since the Square was established as the core of Mansfield’s downtown, and during that time it has gone through many stages of appearance. The period when it was most photographed—1852 to 1958—was the era when it stood as a shady grove of trees, like an island in the […]

When is a square not a square? When it’s a diamond: It all just depends on how you look at it. In America we have the traditional Town Square, but in Ireland, Scotland, England that same four-sided downtown gathering place would be called the Village Diamond. That’s why Mansfield has a Diamond Street. This is […]