- 5 days ago
- 1 min
St. John's UCC baptismal font
Created by Peter Klassen in the 1930s - includes six ceramic pieces Baptismal at St. John's United Church of Christ Located in the church...
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- 6 days 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 25
- 1 min
Two dozen Bluffton brushes with fame, plus some famous people who called Bluffton home
Or, what does Bluffton, Jimmie Doolittle, William McKinnley, Einstein, a former Mexican president and Phyllis Diller have in common?...
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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 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 25
- 3 min
1940s Bluffton residents' brush with history
Involving Tomoyuki Yamashita, Albert Einstein, F.D. Roosevelt, George Marshall, Mickey Rooney and Carl Spaatz In November 1945 Bluffton...
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- Aug 22
- 2 min
They graduated from BHS from 1950 to 1959
BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS MEMBERS FROM 1950 T0 1959 Class of 1950 Peter Eugene Hankish, president Virginia Kay Berry, vice-president...
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- Aug 21
- 5 min
Ralph Locher - famous from Bluffton
Bluffton HS and Bluffton College grad became Mayor of Cleveland and Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court Have you ever wonder what famous...
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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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- 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 23
- 1 min
Gratz Shoe Store was a Main Street business
Meet Walter Gratz, owner of Gratz Family Shoe Store, 115 N. Main St., Bluffton. In the photo below look for the sign with the green...
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- Jul 19
- 1 min
Big Red - a Bluffton classic
This 1928 Chevy was originally Elmer Short's delivery truck "We even gave it a grease job because we were going to take my dad, Evan's...
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- Jul 13
- 2 min
Years before 45817 existed
Bluffton postmasters - photo taken in the 1930s Six early Bluffton postmasters sat for this Will Triplett photograph in the 1930s. This...
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- Jun 30
- 1 min
Lydia Burkholder's grandchildren
In 1943 were spread out from first grade through sophomores From Oct. 1, 1942, Bluffton News – With at least one grandchild in every...
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- Jun 22
- 2 min
More on Bluffton's brush with history
Who was that man on the bus, if it wasn't General Pershing? Spoiler alert – You’d better read this entire feature to the very end. The...
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- Jun 21
- 1 min
Another Bluffton brush with history
Imagine sitting on a bus next to General Pershing - it happened If you had the opportunity, what might you ask the late General John J....
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- Jun 13
- 1 min
Bluffton's first club for young men
How many silk ties, bowlers, Hombergs and very stiff shirt collars are in this photo? How many silk ties, bowlers, Hombergs and very...
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- Jun 13
- 2 min
One of our earliest families
The Cornwell family with Stratton and Ewing connections Meet one of this community’s first families with connections to Ewings and...
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- May 24
- 4 min
Our town was on the Underground Railroad
Could be Bluffton's best-kept secrets Details in a recently found obituary of a Bluffton man who died 125 years ago could be one of the...
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- Apr 19
- 3 min
Bluffton's brush with history
Several area residents who knew or met famous people A Bluffton News item from Oct. 29, 1896, states that J.S. Jennings of Armorsville...
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