

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...
Jul 23, 2023


One-time frequent Bluffton visitors
Here's an interesting publicity page from an Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad brochure. It shows several railroad freight and...
Jul 23, 2023


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...
Jul 22, 2023


Designed to carry the load
Can you identify the location of this bridge replaced by a two-lane structure? Crossing the Riley Two photographs show a former bridge...
Jul 21, 2023


Walking Main Street on a summer day in the 1920s
A photo certainly deserving a thousand words; we've provided 500 Here’s a summer day in downtown Bluffton in the early-to-mid-1920s. As...
Jul 21, 2023


When men's softball was king
Here’s the Triplett 1945 softball team. Front from left, Oliver Steiner, Kenneth Moser, Hubert Basinger, Donavin Moser, Ralph Augsburger,...
Jul 21, 2023


What the bird saw in 1950 flying over Bluffton
CLICK HERE TO SEE AERIAL VIEWS OF BLUFFTON IN 1974 Here’s an aerial view of Bluffton taken in the early 1950s. Be careful, you may end up...
Jul 20, 2023


114 July Fourth's ago - Jule Benroth set a record
He amazed a large Bluffton crowd by driving 50 miles per hour down Main Street The crowds gasped as the car roared by and it was really a...
Jul 19, 2023
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