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BELLVILLE -- It’s not every day those buried in a cemetery can stroll through the rows of headstones and converse with their visitors.
HARRISON TOWNSHIP -- Naming a place seems like a way to claim it for all time. But it isn't always so.
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MOUNT VERNON -- The photo we ran a few weeks ago of the Big Bear store opening in Mount Vernon stirred some memories from readers.
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MOUNT VERNON -- Young employees can of course be of priceless value to a business establishment. It is, however, important for the adult in charge to keep a close eye on what the youngster is doing.
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CENTERBURG -- A recent vintage postcard discovery shows us some smoking ruins in Centerburg in August of 1909.
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CENTERBURG -- The path to happiness in life can have some twists and turns. But few paths wander as far afield as the story of the peculiar marriage of Daniel and Nanette Paul.
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MOUNT VERNON -- This week we see a blast from the past: the opening of the original Big Bear store on Coshocton Avenue in Mount Vernon in 1961. B
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August 3rd is the 100th anniversary of an important event backing up Ohio’s claim as the “Birthplace of Aviation.”
WATERFORD -- Waterford lies just inside the very northwest corner of Knox County. We've visited the forgotten history of its ambitious but short-lived Westminster Academy previously here at History Knox.
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On Aug. 2, 1883 the famed elephant Jumbo walked around Downtown Mansfield. He was, after all, the first African elephant to set foot in America. All local businesses and industries shut down so everybody could go watch the parade.
FREDERICKTOWN -- One of the fun things about new technologies is people like to play with them and see what they can make the new gadgets do.
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MOUNT VERNON -- One of the pitfalls of scouring the byways of history for nearly forgotten stories is that sometimes you can only salvage part of a story. Perhaps someone out there will know more about this week's interesting fragment of the past.
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LOUDONVILLE -- One of the oldest houses in the Loudonville area is the "Century House," located on State Route 3 at the Mohican Adventures campground.
GAMBIER -- It's bad enough when one's most famous act is largely forgotten in the dusk of lost history. It's worse when the person did more than one thing that should be remembered.
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ASHLAND -- Many of us are familiar with the catchy tune Yankee Doodle which starts out “Yankee Doodle went to town a-riding on a pony, stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni...”
MOUNT VERNON -- A pair of old photographs from the Knox Time Collection help us celebrate Independence Day this weekend. While these pictures were almost certainly not from a summer parade, their festive feel is appropriate.
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UTICA -- My most recent search through vintage regional postcards turned up this undated image from Utica.
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UTICA -- I encountered this striking structure on a vintage postcard recently. I was surprised by it, at first.
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FREDERICKTOWN -- It was that time of year when the night starts coming faster, and the clouds seem to hang a little lower in the sky. This particular evening was more harshly cold than usual, a crisp fall evening with a little bite to it.
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MOUNT VERNON -- We tend to think of dramatic things bringing down political careers: scandal, assassination, unpopularity.
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NEWCASTLE -- I told myself not to be disappointed.
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ASHLAND -- In 1788, General Rufus Putman who was labeled the “Father of Ohio” and 47 adventurers landed at a site near what is now Marietta and claimed 1.5 million acres of land for the New England Ohio Company.
MOUNT VERNON -- After last week's memorable but devastating retelling of the tragic story of little Eddie Berger, I think we could all use something a shade or 12 lighter.
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MOUNT VERNON -- Shyness can kill you.
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MOUNT VERNON -- Another fine week of reading other people's mail! This time, I've come up with a postcard that was sent from Mount Vernon to England.
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MOUNT VERNON -- Once a month, History Knox features a pair of vintage cabinet card photographs taken in Knox County, which do not have names identifying the people in the pictures.
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LOUDONVILLE -- With the National Football League draft looming, it seemed only natural to reflect on Loudonville's influence on the historic organization.
MILLER TOWNSHIP -- Adam Gibbons of Geneva, Illinois, sells old photographs and ephemera on eBay as gibtel1.
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MOHICANVILLE -- With the news of the discovery of gold in California in 1849, gold fever spread across the United States.
FREDERICKTOWN -- I pick up postcards (whenever I can find them at an affordable price) that give us glimpses of Knox County history.
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BRINKHAVEN -- One of my favorite aspects of doing the History Knox column is that these pieces often bring in responses, sometimes from those who know the story, other times from those who have heard it for the first time.
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FREDERICKTOWN -- A real photo postcard from Aug. 29, 1913, gives us a glimpse of the fire that wiped out a block of Fredericktown's business district that day.
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MOUNT VERNON -- A photo postcard recently came into my collection that records a momentous disaster that happened in Knox County 108 years ago this week.
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FREDERICKTOWN -- This business establishment is a bit of genius ranking up there with the bar in Mount Vernon that used to be known as "The Office."
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LOUDONVILLE -- In 1948, Loudonville native Paul Weirick, best known as the music arranger for the Lawrence Welk Show, introduced his showbiz friends to a taste of his hometown.
MOUNT VERNON -- A. Banning Norton's early history of Knox County delights in personal anecdotes, and few are better than Benjamin Butler's story about how he engineered the unlikely acension of Mount Vernon to county seat.
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Samuel Stull would have been amazed by what happened at an auction in 2019. Certainly, having been born in 1808 and died in 1907, Stull wouldn't understand anything about the internet and auction websites. But he'd surely be stunned to find a rifle that he himself made selling in that auctio…
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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.
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History was always my favorite subject in school. I minored in it in college, and have found it fascinating since my grandmother introduced me to a book on the history of U.S. Presidents shortly after I learned to read.
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MOUNT VERNON -- The house was packed. A buzz of excitement ran through the air. Friends and neighbors discussed the performance to come, many with skepticism.
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MOUNT VERNON -- This week we bring you a view looking north up South Main Street in downtown Mount Vernon from around 1935.
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MCKAY -- Robert Wilson, of McKay, was a conductor along the Underground Railroad.
CENTERBURG -- Last week's column generated a lot of discussion on Facebook, where we were able to narrow some things down about the mysterious vintage postcard photo of Hartford Avenue in Centerburg.
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