MANSFIELD — Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on Good Friday, April. 14, 1865. The president died the next morning. In the theater audience that night was Mansfield resident, […]
Abraham Lincoln
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Ohio Civil War and WWI & II Show returns to Richland County May 4-5
MANSFIELD — Experience living history encampments at the largest Historical event in the U.S. presenting our history from 1775 through 1945. All right here in Mansfield, Ohio. So much to see and enjoy. The 46th annual Ohio Civil War and World War I & World War II Show will be held at the Richland County […]
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Fort Fizzle topic of Feb. 12 Loudonville museum event
LOUDONVILLE—The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum welcomes back historian Patrick Drouhard for their next speaker series event, “Fort Fizzle: The Holmes County Rebellion.” No history of the Mohican area is complete without mention of the rebellion, known locally as “Fort Fizzle.” Over 400 Union soldiers with two cannons were ordered to the small village of Napoleon, […]
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Richland County elects the President (not)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — There are dozens of cities and counties and precincts around the country who all like to claim the title of Presidential Election Bellwether — indicating that any candidate who wants to take the White House will have to carry their specific […]
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Richland County elects the President (not)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — There are dozens of cities and counties and precincts around the country who all like to claim the title of Presidential Election Bellwether — indicating that any candidate who wants to take the White House will have to carry their specific […]
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From Lincoln to LeBron, freedom of speech defeats perspective
I long for the days of perspective. When a wise voice could step to the fore with a calm, reasoned approach; when common sense prevailed and a settling demeanor won the day. That’s what I kept thinking recently after reading what later turned out to be yet another politically-charged, wildly inaccurate story in one of […]
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Eyewitness to History: Brinkerhoff at Ford’s Theater
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — The night in 1865 when President Lincoln was assassinated — April 14, 1863 — fell on Good Friday. The news traveled across the country as quickly as it could in those days — by telegraph — and even though a newspaper account […]