EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on June 19, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MILLERSBURG -- Holmes County native Frank D. Gallion left home in 1941 to join the war in Europe, but didn't return home until 1996 -- 55 years later.
MOUNT VERNON -- The wagon pulled out of the square and onto South Main Street. At the reins was a tall man, wrapped in a long riding cloak. He climbed down from his wagon, clenched his jaw, and approached a tiny wooden building constructed in a mock-Doric and Corinthian style and painted bri…
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Sept. 8, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
LOUDONVILLE -- Though today the Mohican area is mostly safe from dangerous animals, the hills and forests were once home to large numbers of bobcats, cougars, wolves, and even bears.
ASHLAND — Communicable illnesses have been a worldwide concern for thousands of years.
MOUNT VERNON -- I've written here before about losses to the regional theater community, such as when the great Dan Turner passed away. '
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MANSFIELD -- Mansfield's Lahm Airport is named for an unlikely aviator with a rather surprising rise to fame.
MOUNT VERNON -- Perusing the news of 100 years ago this weekend, I found that then-mayor of Mount Vernon, Ned W. Ilger, was suffering some difficulties.
ASHLAND -- Through the centuries, as Christianity spread throughout the world, so did its many rich traditions.
Back in the 1980s I interviewed an old woman in Mansfield because I wanted to learn more about the 1930s, when she operated an Auto Park of tourist cabins on Route 430 east of town.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 20, 2011 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- Once a month, we feature a pair of vintage cabinet card photographs taken in Knox County which do not have names identifying the people in the pictures.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 19, 2019 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
BUTLER -- The Mohican area is well known for Lyons Falls, but the area is also home to the lesser-known Hemlock Falls located between Perrysville and Butler.
DANVILLE -- The landlady of the boarding house at 502 Market Street in Lima, Ohio, said that Joe Butler had been arguing fiercely with the woman who showed up, claiming to be his wife, on Dec. 10, 1910.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on June 19, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
Historically speaking, the now-familiar view from the top of the fire tower in Mohican Memorial State Forest is a relatively recent sight for humans of Richland and Ashland Counties.
On the sweltering and sun-baked weekend that this column is first being published, we can all relate to Knox County famer Harvey Devoe, who began fighting a long battle with drought in July of 1861.
MOUNT VERNON -- We get so used to the roads we see daily, that it is easy to forget they weren't always so. This 1910 postcard features “the hill road” to Gambier from Mount Vernon.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on June 19, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- Once a month, we feature a pair of vintage cabinet card photographs taken in Knox County which do not have names identifying the people in the pictures. They were all taken by photographers who had studios in Mount Vernon. Cabinet cards were a popular format for sharing photo…
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published April 24, 2019 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
LOUDONVILLE -- In 1930, the Loudonville Opera House and Municipal Building (now The Ohio Theatre) was the site of the death of a well-known and high ranking official.
UTICA -- A community isn't formed by constantly tearing down old buildings and putting up new ones.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 2, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
LOUDONVILLE — The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s virtual Speaker Series continues this month with an in-depth look at Louis Bromfield, one of north central Ohio’s most famous authors, with special guest Stephen Heyman.
On the sweltering and sun-baked weekend that this column is first being published, we can all relate to Knox County famer Harvey Devoe, who began fighting a long battle with drought in July of 1861.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on April 1, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
GREER -- Long ago, it was the place where teenage boys would bring their dates after high school sock hops or football games. They would park their Studebakers at the intersection of two lonely country roads outside Greer, under the pale light of the moon.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 30, 2019 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
LOUDONVILLE -- Loudonville native Danny Foster (1937-2014) was the first American to arrive in Vostok, Antarctica -- known as the coldest place on earth.
MOUNT VERNON -- When one thinks of electric-powered trolley cars, the place most likely to come to mind is San Francisco, California. But these peculiar conveyances once had widespread use across the U.S., including locally in Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon's era of cable cars lasted just under …
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on April 16, 2011 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- Once a month, we feature a pair of vintage cabinet card photographs taken in Knox County which do not have names identifying the people in the pictures. They were all taken by photographers who had studios in Mount Vernon.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Sept. 17, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
PERRYSVILLE -- Jedediah Smith, who grew up in Perrysville, opened the west and changed the course of American history.
You all know by now that I love a good mystery. Remembering well-documented stories or photographs is a fun and necessary part of a local history column, but I derive a special delight from finding an interesting slice of life where absolutely nothing was documented before.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Dec. 22, 2010 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. This particular piece was also enhanced with relevant data about Coshocton attorney Noah Haynes Swayne, the second Supreme Court Justice from Ohio.
LOUDONVILLE -- On Oct. 18, 1973, north central ohio residents witnessed strange lights in the sky to the west over Charles Mill Lake.
On the sweltering and sun-baked weekend that this column is first being published, we can all relate to Knox County famer Harvey Devoe, who began fighting a long battle with drought in July of 1861.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published in June, 2017 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- Old postcards are a wonderful source of period images, and there are many of Mount Vernon floating around among postcard collectors. The larger postcard printers flooded the market with certain images, which remain common.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on April 14, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- Once a month, we feature a pair of vintage cabinet card photographs taken in Knox County which do not have names identifying the people in the pictures. They were all taken by photographers who had studios in Mount Vernon. Cabinet cards were a popular format for sharing photo…
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 1, 2018 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
LOUDONVILLE -- On Dec. 17 2007, the Loudonville Uglification Committee took steps to "maintain the town's unpleasant appearance," by preserving a pile of overflowing garbage bags.
MOUNT VERNON -- Summer vacation is over and school is back in session -- as much as it can be, anyway, in these days of pandemic.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 1, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 1, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
LOUDONVILLE -- The Mohican area once had its own gold rush, about 130 years ago.
On the sweltering and sun-baked weekend that this column is first being published, we can all relate to Knox County famer Harvey Devoe, who began fighting a long battle with drought in July of 1861.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally publilshed on Aug. 27, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
LOUDONVILLE -- If you don't know the exploits of Frank Ellis, take a moment to appreciate the part he played in American military history.
BROWN TOWNSHIP -- The ravages of Time are brutal, but sometimes a glimpse of the past can be snatched from the debris.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 11, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- Once a month, we feature a pair of vintage cabinet card photographs taken in Knox County which do not have names identifying the people in the pictures. They were all taken by photographers who had studios in Mount Vernon.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 4, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
LOUDONVILLE -- Before Kettering and Flxible's rise to fame that put Loudonville on the map, another inventor and businessman attempted to leave his mark on the world by building an empire in his hometown.
MOUNT VERNON -- The news of the sale of the Mount Vernon News last week was a stunner, bringing to an end local ownership of a franchise that had run in its current incarnation for over 80 years. But the newspaper's true history continued further back, in one form or another, to before the C…
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on March 19, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. This blog post will take a look at a historic pandemic in Ohio. As our lives change to fight COVID-19, this can be a tough topic. Please put this post aside for later if the topic is too heavy to carry at the moment.
LOUDONVILLE -- In 1961, Dick Frye introduced the idea of canoe rentals to Ohio when he opened The Mohican Canoe Livery south of Loudonville.
CENTERBURG -- How can a place be long-gone, yet still hanging around?
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 11, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. This story will take a look at a historic pandemic in Ohio. As our lives change to fight COVID-19, this can be a tough topic. Please put this post aside for later if the topic is too heavy to carry at the moment.
On the sweltering and sun-baked weekend that this column is first being published, we can all relate to Knox County famer Harvey Devoe, who began fighting a long battle with drought in July of 1861.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 8, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- If you've been following History Knox this long, you've probably detected one of my themes: There weren't really any good old days.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 22, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- Once a month, we feature a pair of vintage cabinet card photographs taken in Knox County which do not have names identifying the people in the pictures.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Feb. 12, 2016 by Ohio Memory, a collaborative program of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- Collaborative journalism is fun, and several readers have jumped into the mystery posted a couple of weeks ago about a person apparently attending a funeral in Mount Vernon, and losing his or her hat in the process.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on July 1, 2020 by the Ohio History Connection. Knox Pages has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
On the sweltering and sun-baked weekend that this column is first being published, we can all relate to Knox County famer Harvey Devoe, who began fighting a long battle with drought in July of 1861.
A vintage postcard preserves a glimpse of one of life's little dramas, but leaves us in the dark about whom it happened to.
MOUNT VERNON -- Once a month, we feature a pair of vintage cabinet card photographs taken in Knox County which do not have names identifying the people in the pictures.
LOUDONVILLE -- In the 1950s the Flxible Company began manufacturing an 11-column cigarette vending machine for the Mercury Vending Company of Cleveland.
The Morris Chapel Cemetery is one of the prettiest and best-kept country graveyards in Knox County. Located on Hyatt Road right off Old Mansfield Road northeast of Mount Vernon, the small cemetery was originally the graveyard for Morris Chapel, which is now a private residence.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the sixth installment in our year-long examination of the adventures of Knox County farmer Harvey Devoe, who kept a diary for the year 1861, which has been annotated and published by historian Alan Borer and is available through online retailers. The series began on J…
MOUNT VERNON -- Last week, we looked at a souvenir from the 1899-1900 term of Sunny Side School in Monroe Township. The photo of that souvenir caught the eye of reader Aaron James of Pike Township, who has a similar souvenir.
LOUDONVILLE -- Loudonville native Charles Kettering invented the world's first guided missile -- then called a flying bomb -- in 1918, nearly 26 years before the Germans debuted the V-1 flying bomb.
ASHLAND -- Signs were erected and nearly every business in Ashland took out an ad in local newspapers to acknowledge the Ashland homecoming of Col. Robert (Bob) Clyde Springer in late May, 1989.
MOUNT VERNON -- Sue Lindsey of the Black Walnut Holler antique shop in Mount Vernon recently posted a photograph in the Knox Time group on Facebook.
MOUNT VERNON -- This week we debut a new recurring feature which will occupy us for about a year and a half. Once a month, we will be featuring a pair of vintage cabinet card photographs taken in Knox County which do not have names identifying the people in the pictures.
LOUDONVILLE -- The First National Bank of Loudonville once issued legal U.S. currency bearing its, and the town's, name.
GAMBIER -- The Civil War tore the United States apart. Many families and friends were split on ideological lines, some supporting the North, others the South.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth installment in our year-long examination of the adventures of Knox County farmer Harvey Devoe, who kept a diary for the year 1861, which has been annotated and published by historian Alan Borer and is available through online retailers. The series began on J…
LOUDONVILLE -- Louis Bromfield, local author and conservationist, was well known for hosting Hollywood elites at his farm, but he was also close friends with many literary figures.
SPARTA -- Back when I used to labor away in the news mines at the Mount Vernon News, I always enjoyed the assignments of covering small-town festivals. All you had to do was show up, observe, get a picture, and then drive — slowly — back to the newsroom.
