- Oct 27
- 2 min
Meet the BHS class of 1913 as juniors
Many familiar last names including Koontz, Gratz, Amstutz, Zimmerly, Steiner, Stauffer, Andrews, Huber, Spangler and Fett Step back 111...
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- Oct 26
- 3 min
Ashless cigar invented in 1919 in Bluffton
Bill Hahn, member of the Bluffton High School class of 1919 held the patent It’s a little-known fact that Bluffton, Ohio, is the home of...
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- Oct 26
- 1 min
Fifth graders gain writing tips
Fred Steiner shared his writing background with Meredith Bixel's social studies classes Bluffton fifth graders gained some writing tips...
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- Oct 25
- 2 min
The sound of music in rural Bluffton
This quartet played the mandolin, zither, accordion and guitar This photograph may change our impressions of rural Bluffton-Pandora life...
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- Oct 24
- 1 min
Is your great-grandparent in this 1925 BHS band?
"Senior" members of this website will recognize several band members. Just look closely. Here's members of the Bluffton High School band,...
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- Oct 23
- 1 min
Ebenezer women's SS class in 1890s
Members last names included Diller, Bixel, Althaus, Geiger, Augsburger, Bucher, Amstutz, Gratz - probably related to half of the Bluffton...
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- Oct 21
- 2 min
Meet the phantom of ONU
Apparently things do go bump in the night in Ada Ohio Northern University in Ada apparently houses several ghosts we don’t believe, but...
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- Oct 20
- 4 min
A Shawnee "Indian" walked from Oklahoma to Bluffton to see the land where he once camped
Countless stories of the native Americans of forgotten Bluffton From a 1928 Bluffton News, history of the community – While Michael...
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- Oct 19
- 2 min
July 1947 - One month after Roswell
"Strange object seen here like flying saucers" Bet you didn’t know that a “strange illuminated object” was sighted in rural Bluffton. It...
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- Oct 16
- 1 min
Preview of this week's ghost story presentations
Watch out if you hike near the Scioto march - in 1925 farmers captured a 75-pound timber wolf Welcome to Bluffton’s dark and stormy...
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- Oct 15
- 4 min
Questions about a Native American "skirmish" in Richland Township
• And, an impressive lecture presented in Bluffton in 1880 by a Native American; • plus the discovery of three mounds in Putnam County...
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- Oct 13
- 1 min
3 chances to get creeped out next week
• One Bluffton ghost story presentation Tuesday • Two presentations Wednesday Three Bluffton ghost story talks by Fred Steiner take...
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- Oct 13
- 1 min
BHS class of '65 in Kindergarten
Mrs. Gratz was the teacher and the school year was 1952-53 Here’s Mrs. Walter Gratz’s Kindergarten in the 1952-53 school year. These...
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- Oct 12
- 1 min
Bluffton's 1954-55 Kindergarteners
Mrs. Gratz's students in her private Kindergarten Meet Bluffton youth in Mrs. Walter Gratz’s private Kindergarten in 1954-55. Students...
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- Oct 11
- 1 min
Home of fine foods and good service
P-K Truck Stop Restaurant in Beaverdam once stood at the cross roads of America When U.S. 30 and U.S. 25 crossed on the northside of...
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