

125 Christmases ago, 2 Bluffton railroads offered excursions
Sorry you missed them - maybe next year It’s too late to take advantage of Bluffton’s two passenger railroad holiday excursions, which...
Jan 4, 2024


When Pocahontas coal was $7 a ton
1937 advertiser of the week The words of coal today sound as foreign phrases to anyone who grew up before a coal furnace warmed Bluffton...
Jan 3, 2024


A 1925 plan for Bluffton College's growth
It included a seminary building, an addition to Ropp Hall and a music building The future seldom what is seems. Take Bluffton College’s...
Jan 2, 2024


What's so historic about Bluffton history?
30,000-plus viewers must be on to something What’s so historic about Bluffton history anyway? Approximately 804 days ago, Oct. 18, 2021,...
Dec 30, 2023


No ordinary 1899 cat
No ordinary young Bluffton woman Ordinary cats don’t exist, so the saying goes. The white feline in this photo proves that. It convinced...
Dec 29, 2023


Could be Ohio's oldest new year's tradition
Swiss Community Historical Society will sing traditional New Year's carols on Dec. 31 Go to bottom of this story for the carols in German...
Dec 28, 2023


Nothing like a Maytag wringer washer
In 1936 you could buy one on Main Street from C.F. Niswander Prior to the Citizens National Bank expansion, at 116 S. Main St., Bluffton,...
Dec 23, 2023


It's the Fuller Brush Man
Nelson F. Steiner probably knocked on your grandparents' door in the 1950s It was the day of the door-to-door salesman. For 15 Christmas...
Dec 23, 2023
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