MOUNT VERNON -- On the quieter days around Mount Vernon, it's easy to forget that this town provided the nation a major mover and shaker in the mid-1800s. There is no question about how influential Columbus Delano was.
LOUDONVILLE -- Happy Thanksgiving to all!
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is Part 6 in a 9-part series on Ohio's great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
LOUDONVILLE -- The Cline Cabin at Mohican State Park was originally built on a hill, circa 1863, by German immigrant Constantine Cline.
MANSFIELD -- A small audience of curious people gathered Thursday evening in Founders Auditorium on the campus the Mansfield branch of The Ohio State University to catch a rare glimpse of a work shelved for the last 86 years.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is Part 5 in a 9-part series on Ohio's great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- If you drive south out of Mount Vernon on Newark Road (Ohio 13), you'll find yourself just emerging from town as you pass Glen Road, where the Jeld-Wen window plant is located.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is Part 4 in a 9-part series on Ohio's great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
FREDERICKTOWN -- Long before alcohol prohibition was tried in the 1920s — and disastrously failed, I might add — the anti- alcohol temperance movement had many advocates.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is Part 3 in a 9-part series on Ohio's great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT VERNON -- Historical research is never finished. There's always the chance of additional information popping up from some forgotten file or box of papers somewhere.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is Part 2 in a 9-part series on Ohio's great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
FREDERICKTOWN -- Meet Orin Bishop. He's the writer of the 1913 postcard featured in a previous History Knox column.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is Part 1 in a 9-part series on Ohio's great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOUNT LIBERTY -- Ah, for the good old days, when troubled teenagers didn't commit armed robbery. When those days were, exactly, I don't know.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
FREDERICKTOWN -- Say what you will about the pitfalls of social media — and there are plenty — but it can turn a local history column into a discussion with results. Last week we ran an antique postcard image identified as the Bishop home on “Route 2, Fredericktown.”
MOUNT VERNON – The Chautauqua Series continues on Tuesday, Oct. 12 [NOTE: this is a TUESDAY not the regular THURSDAY] at the Grand Hotel (12 Public Square in downtown Mount Vernon) at 7 p.m.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on June 3, 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.
FREDERICKTOWN -- In the course of collecting materials for this column, I sometimes find items which open the doors to past stories. Other times, the information that is there is insufficient to unlock the past.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on May 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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2015.
MOUNT VERNON -- I recently had the opportunity to cross paths with Rev. Scott Elliott of the Mount Vernon First Congregational Church (MVFCCC).
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 24, 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 -- I've written before about Knox County's Confederate general, Daniel H. Reynolds, born in Centerburg but relocated south in adulthood, where he remained.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Aug. 23, 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.
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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015.
MOUNT VERNON -- The photo we ran a few weeks ago of the Big Bear store opening in Mount Vernon stirred some memories from readers.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 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.
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.
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.
CENTERBURG -- A recent vintage postcard discovery shows us some smoking ruins in Centerburg in August of 1909.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 12, 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.
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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 12, 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 -- 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
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 12, 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.
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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 12, 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.
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.
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 -- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015.
UTICA -- My most recent search through vintage regional postcards turned up this undated image from Utica.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 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.
UTICA -- I encountered this striking structure on a vintage postcard recently. I was surprised by it, at first.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on June 7, 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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 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.
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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 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.
MOUNT VERNON -- We tend to think of dramatic things bringing down political careers: scandal, assassination, unpopularity.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 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.
NEWCASTLE -- I told myself not to be disappointed.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 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.
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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 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.
MOUNT VERNON -- Shyness can kill you.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 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.
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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 12, 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, 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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Nov. 12, 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 -- 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.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published on Jan. 15, 2021 by the Ohio History Connection. Knox Pages has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites.
MOHICANVILLE -- With the news of the discovery of gold in California in 1849, gold fever spread across the United States.
