OPEN SOURCE — We published this story in response to a reader comment and question submitted through our Open Source platform. Do you have a question you want our reporters to answer? Click here to submit it. Question: The Ohio Brass Building located at 380 N Main St. is a beautiful building sitting vacant. With all […]
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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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Mansfield experienced a mass protest on the Square in 1900
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. “The right of the people peaceably to assemble.” It is a democratic empowerment so fundamental to the essence of our nation that it is inscribed prominently into the very first Amendment to the Constitution. As a core value so central to defining our […]
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Trolley barn of the Mansfield Railway Light & Power Co.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — At one time in Mansfield’s history all the streetcar rails in town led to this site on East Fourth Street at Scott Street. The building in the old photo burned down some years ago but it was replaced by a structure that […]
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Trolley barn of the Mansfield Railway Light & Power Co.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — At one time in Mansfield’s history all the streetcar rails in town led to this site on East Fourth Street at Scott Street. The building in the old photo burned down some years ago but it was replaced by a structure that […]
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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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Remembering North Lake boathouse in 1945
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — When the streams of Toby’s Run were ponded into the body of water called North Lake in 1888, a new sporting pastime was born in Mansfield: the opportunity to go boating. Through the following generations the lake had a whole fleet […]
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Remembering North Lake boathouse in 1945
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — When the streams of Toby’s Run were ponded into the body of water called North Lake in 1888, a new sporting pastime was born in Mansfield: the opportunity to go boating. Through the following generations the lake had a whole fleet […]
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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 […]