Outstanding in their field - love those Stetson hats
Meet the Bluffton HS Future Farmers of America 1936-37 This photo makes us want to go out and purchase a nice Stetson hat. Meet the...
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Washington never slept here
but Dillinger robbed our bank
and Elvis stopped for gas
- Feb 28
- 1 min
Let's watch a movie at the Odeon
From 1914 to the 1950s it was Ada's downtown movie theatre This isn’t Bluffton; it’s Ada, home of the Odeon movie theatre. In case you...
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- Feb 9
- 1 min
A Main Street icon
It filled thirsty gas tanks for travelers on the Dixie Highway all the way from upper Michigan to the Florida Keys Today it is A to Z...
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- Dec 11, 2022
- 2 min
Put Dillinger under your Christmas tree
Eye-witness accounts of John Dillinger's 1933 Bluffton bank robbery available for the first time in print form “Four guys walk into a...
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- Nov 3, 2022
- 1 min
1,200 attended musical revue 85 years ago
Bluffton Lions Club event packed the BHS old gymnasium Bluffton Lions Club third annual “gigantic musical revue” played to a packed house...
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- Oct 10, 2022
- 1 min
Here comes the Bluffton school bus
Meet the busses and drivers of the school's first bus fleet Meet the first group of Bluffton school bus drivers. This was taken in the...
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- Sep 27, 2022
- 1 min
Meet the 1937 Bluffton school board
Members of the Bluffton school board of education in 1936-37, standing from left Sidney Huber, vice president, Ralph Patterson and...
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- Sep 20, 2022
- 1 min
1930s Bluffton Sportsmen's
Planting walnut seedlings in rural Bluffton In the early 1930s members of the Bluffton Sportsmen’s Club planted walnut tree seedlings on...
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- Sep 15, 2022
- 1 min
If you attended school in Beaverdam...
If you attended school in Beaverdam, you may be familiar with this building plaque. It reads: Beaverdam District School Erected 1934...
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- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
Did your grandparents work here?
This was Bluffton's largest employer for several decades of the 20th century. It's the Triplett plant on Harmon Road, as the photo...
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- Aug 6, 2022
- 4 min
This Bluffton mysterious place has a watery grave
The famous "floating" pool – familiar to an earlier generation of Bluffton swimmers The world’s oceans hold many secrets. Sea monsters,...
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