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.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Dec. 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.

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.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan 23, 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.

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.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on July 24, 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 -- A photo postcard recently came into my collection that records a momentous disaster that happened in Knox County 108 years ago this week.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan 23, 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.

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."

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan 23, 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 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.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan 23, 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.

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…

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on July 24, 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 -- 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 April 28, 2017 by the Ohio History Connection. Knox Pages has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.

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.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015.

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.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan. 17, 2021 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 -- This week we bring you a view looking north up South Main Street in downtown Mount Vernon from around 1935.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Aug. 13, 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.

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.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan. 25, 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 -- The Clear Fork Gorge in Mohican State Forest was formed around 12,000 years ago by the forces of the melting Wisconsin Glacier at its southern boundary.

CENTERBURG -- A man stands in front of the shop window of a store in Centerburg.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published in December, 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 -- 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. 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.

HAYESVILLE -- On June 10, 1906, George Francis Eihinger was born outside of Hayesville to Daisy and Lester Eihinger (also listed as Ethinger).

MIDDLEBURY TOWNSHIP -- 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again' the old saying goes.

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. '

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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.