MANSFIELD — The Richland Early American Center for History (REACH) is hosting a free event Saturday in South Park in honor of Johnny Appleseed’s 250th birthday. Festivities will include educational displays, historic demonstrations, live entertainment and vendors. It’s one of several events paying homage to the American horticulturist and folk hero in the coming weeks. […]
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Here’s a bit of history of Mayflower Memorial Church from 1905
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — At the turn of the last century, Miss Susan Sturges felt very strongly that everyone in Mansfield needed the benefits of belonging to a Congregational Church. So, if folks in the north end of town weren’t going to travel down to […]
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Native Son: Harry & Walter go to OSR: 1975
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — It was the first movie filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory. At the time one of the Hollywood producers called it “the first major motion picture ever filmed in Ohio.” He added, rather wistfully, “it may not be the last.” This was […]
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Native Son: Harry & Walter go to OSR: 1975
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — It was the first movie filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory. At the time one of the Hollywood producers called it “the first major motion picture ever filmed in Ohio.” He added, rather wistfully, “it may not be the last.” This was […]
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Frank Lahm in 1906: American sports superstar
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — When you wonder about how the Mansfield airport got its name, it is not too difficult to find a resumé of General Lahm, and understand why the world of aviation would want to honor him by naming an Air National Guard […]
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Frank Lahm in 1906: American sports superstar
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — When you wonder about how the Mansfield airport got its name, it is not too difficult to find a resumé of General Lahm, and understand why the world of aviation would want to honor him by naming an Air National Guard […]
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Interurban streetcar connected through Plymouth in 1907
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. PLYMOUTH — Today when you want to travel to another town you get on a highway. In 1907 you hopped on to an Interurban streetcar. The streetcar (captured in this photo) ran on the tracks of the Sandusky, Norwalk and Mansfield line, which […]
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Interurban streetcar connected through Plymouth in 1907
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. PLYMOUTH — Today when you want to travel to another town you get on a highway. In 1907 you hopped on to an Interurban streetcar. The streetcar (captured in this photo) ran on the tracks of the Sandusky, Norwalk and Mansfield line, which […]
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Louis Bromfield and The Farm
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Throughout Mansfield’s long history there have been a great many artists whose works have focused on the city in one way or another. This series of articles collects portraits of our town created in different decades by painters, novelists, playwrights, composers, poets and […]
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Louis Bromfield and The Farm
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Throughout Mansfield’s long history there have been a great many artists whose works have focused on the city in one way or another. This series of articles collects portraits of our town created in different decades by painters, novelists, playwrights, composers, poets and […]