- 15 hours ago
- 2 min
5 sets of twins in one school room
It was in the Hilty school west of Bluffton in the early 1910s Imagine teaching school with a classroom with five sets of twins. Beyond...
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- Sep 7
- 1 min
Could be members of an exclusive club
Maybe the all-men's Quaint Klub of Bluffton There are many familiar last names in this photograph of young Bluffton men. It is possible...
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- Sep 6
- 1 min
Suddenly it's 1908 and the coffee shop doesn't exist
In its place is Hauenstein's drug store at 101 S. Main St. Let's go inside and take a look around Let’s walk into a familiar Bluffton...
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- Aug 29
- 1 min
Meet 1910 St. John's Reformed confirmation class
With Niswanders, Basingers, Luginbuhls, Matters and Criblezs Members of the 1910 St. John’s Reformed Church (today it is St. John's...
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- Aug 22
- 2 min
111 school years ago - Bluffton 3rd graders
It was 1911 and marked the year that the first Bluffton High School building was opened to students It was 111 school years ago – 1911 to...
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- Aug 21
- 2 min
1910 Bluffton school board smoking edict
Expulsion from school or worse, reported to county probation officer Cigarettes have been lit for decades in Bluffton, and their...
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- Aug 12
- 1 min
Bluffton's 1900 skyline
What are these two buildings and what became of them? Yes, it’s Bluffton, although none of the buildings in this photo exist today –...
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- Jul 31
- 1 min
1915 Richland singing class
Many familiar last names like Amstutz, Burkholder, Luginbuhl, Neuenschwander, Bracy, Zimmerly, Sutter and others Here’s the Richland...
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- Jul 28
- 2 min
Stepping into a 1903 Bluffton barber shop
Tine McGriff and Forest Mumma have over 100 customers Step inside Tine McGriff’s Barber Shop on Main Street, Bluffton, in 1903. Look...
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- Jul 19
- 4 min
114 July Fourth's ago - Jule Benroth set a record
He amazed a large Bluffton crowd by driving 50 miles per hour down Main Street The crowds gasped as the car roared by and it was really a...
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- Jun 26
- 2 min
Book burning here 105 years ago
Involving 40 Bluffton High School students during the noon hour Can you imagine a book burning frenzy in Bluffton? That happened exactly...
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- Jun 20
- 1 min
Who owned Bluffton's first electric vehicle?
You would believe the owner was Nancy Habegger in 1919? Question: who owned the first electric automobile in Bluffton? The answer may...
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- Jun 14
- 2 min
Bluffton African-American history comes to life
Including a Bluffton barber, college student and performance of Fisk singers A little known, interesting Bluffton fact is that the...
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- May 6
- 1 min
6 girls in Bluffton in 1910
But, what was the occasion? We don't know It’s 1910 and six young Bluffton girls posed for this photograph. We don’t know the occasion...
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- Mar 30
- 1 min
This 104-year-ago event changed the face of Main Street
Russell Hotel is gone - Citizens National Bank stands it its place It if wasn’t for the First Mennonite Church steeple in the background,...
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- Mar 15
- 1 min
The Great Flood of 1913
Caused destruction in Bluffton 110 years ago this month Cherry Street 1913 and 2023 This flood became so devastating that it had a name:...
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- Mar 8
- 1 min
At 25 mph in Bluffton during the winter of '14
109 winters ago Clair Weaver and Albert Benroth invented the aero-cycle On Feb. 14, 1914, Clair Weaver posed for this photograph with his...
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- Mar 1
- 4 min
A grocery and bakery in 1900 with 2 delivery wagons
This Main Street building now houses a CPA office The J.L. Doty Grocery and Bakery was once a thriving Bluffton business operating in the...
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- Feb 14
- 1 min
6 Habegger brothers
Third generation of Swiss immigrants to live in the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Settlement The sons of Isaac and Rebecca Shank Habegger posed...
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- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
The snow storm of an earlier century
Will Triplett took his iconic winter Bluffton photograph It's the snowstorm of an earlier century. This is South Main Street, Bluffton....
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