May 111 minPANDORAPandora HS men's glee club in 1907Three-piece suit, high, rounded collared white shirts, bow ties (a few neck ties) and they probably left their derby and bowler hats at...
Apr 171 minBUSINESS OF THE WEEKExamine the stock - learn pricesBluffton Tile Factory - near Bluffton on the Lake Erie and Western Railroad This advertisement was published in the Sept. 8, 1888, issue...
Mar 141 minRAILROADSSomewhere between Bluffton and PandoraHere are two extremely rare photographs of Northern Ohio Railway steam locomotives. Both photos were taken in the rural countryside...
Mar 91 minBLUFFTON PEOPLESwiss Male Chorus - 1939Here are members of the Swiss Male Chorus, organized in Bluffton and Pandora, which performed in 1939. Alvin Burkholder directed the...
Mar 71 minPANDORARiley Township - 1880Bet you can't find Pandora Riley Township, Putnam County 1880 Where’s Pandora? On this plat map it lists Pendleton, which was the name of...
Feb 172 minSWISS CONNECTIONUpdating our Swiss family genealogiesNote to Bluffton Forever viewers of Swiss-German descent: Earlier this week we posted the 41st genealogy column related to persons of...
Jan 121 minRAILROADSDerailment on the AC & YIt was a winter afternoon in 1965 when this Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad freight train derailed in Pandora, Ohio. Charles Hilty,...
Dec 15, 20214 minSWISS CONNECTIONPandora's Schutz, Geiger and Cherry familiesThe Schutz family, with several Pandora connections today, was among many of our Swiss pioneers who came to America from the Emmenthal or...
Oct 13, 20216 minSWISS CONNECTIONJohn Ulrich Amstutz, an early entrepreneurThis column features one of the most interesting Bluffton-Pandora area Swiss immigrants, John Ulrich Amstutz, and this column is a...
Oct 7, 20212 minSWISS CONNECTIONSuter cider press was started by John Bösiger (surname became "Basinger")John Bösiger was born in Alsace, France. When he was 23 a close friend, John Steiner – both living in the community of Belfort, France –...