- 1 day ago
- 1 min
Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Male Chorus - 1939
Many familiar faces: Burkholder, Reichenbach, Kohli, Messinger, Basinger, Badertscher, Zuercher, Althaus, Welty and many others Here are...
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- Sep 16
- 4 min
Bluffton's most mysterious places
Why is there a flagstone wall on both sides of the Riley near Harmon Field? Who build it and why? ÂImagine a mysterious Bluffton location...
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- Sep 12
- 1 min
85 school years ago in Bluffton
Meet your grade school teacher Meet the Bluffton elementary school teachers during the 1938-39 school year. Front from left, Theola...
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- Sep 2
- 1 min
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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- Aug 30
- 2 min
Bluffton's changing rural scene
Farm auctions from 1939, 1946 and 1959 show how we've changed Here are three examples of farm auctions from the decades of the 1930s,...
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- Aug 7
- 1 min
Meet the 1937 Bluffton school board
Sidney Huber, Ralph Patterson, Chester Stauffer, Dr. W.M. Niswander, A.D. Hall, Peter Gratz Members of the Bluffton school board of...
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- Aug 4
- 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 3
- 4 min
Roscoe Evans - famous from Bluffton
Bluffton man was caretaker of the world's largest organ - located in Atlantic City, New Jersey This is the third feature in a series...
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- Aug 1
- 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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- Jul 25
- 2 min
Have you heard about the 1938 LaFayette grave robbery
Grave robbers were apparently seeking a valuable ring Note: This story is part of a Bluffton history book to be released later this...
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- Jul 22
- 2 min
The day the earth shook in Bluffton
IT WAS MARCH OF 1937 Eighty-three years ago this spring – the year was 1937 – Bluffton residents felt the tremors of Ohio’s most severe...
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- Jan 13
- 2 min
Yes, Dillinger was here
Bullet holes in building at 101 N. Main St., from the 1933 robbery You've walked past these John Dillinger bullet holes countless times,...
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- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Here's all the players in the Dillinger bank robbery
This two-page map is part of the booklet "Four Guys Walk Into A Bluffton Bank" You can put John Dillinger under your Christmas tree this...
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- Aug 1, 2022
- 1 min
Did John Dillinger stop here for gas?
Dick Habegger, owner of this Bluffton filling station, said that he did This is not only a classic Bluffton photo – there's a classic...
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- Apr 3, 2022
- 1 min
Round trip - Bluffton to Cleveland
In 1937 you could take the Nickel Plate Railroad from Bluffton to Cleveland, round-trip for $2.50 per person. The special price was part...
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 8 min
1900 to 1930 - they also hold BHS diplomas
Here is the list of Bluffton High School graduates from the classes of 1900 to 1930. You will find the graduates from the classes of 1881...
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- Oct 13, 2021
- 4 min
The story of the "old" wing of the high school
When opened, it attached to the original Bluffton HS building built in 1911 Depending upon when you attended Bluffton High School, the...
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