

Once a frequent Bluffton visitor
Lima-built Berkshire steam locomotive 759 Nickel Plate Road locomotive 759 sets off from Lima toward Bluffton in this photo taken in...
Apr 12, 2023


50 track seasons ago at Bluffton HS
Meet the Pirate boys' track team of 1973 Meet the Bluffton High School boys’ track team of one-half century past. This team, in 1973, was...
Apr 11, 2023


Five covered wagons and a performing bear
Passed through Bluffton last Saturday - 125 years ago this month It happened in Bluffton 125 years ago this month - April 1898 A gang of...
Apr 10, 2023


The Beaver Dam saloon fight of 1895
No sooner did the authorities enter the saloon than a combat was entered into without taking time to sign articles of agreement. The...
Apr 7, 2023


The Klay brothers
Their parents, John and Barbara Zuercher Klay, were among Bluffton's first settlers The Klay brothers, from left, John, Gideon, Jacob,...
Apr 5, 2023


BHS track tradition reaching 100 seasons
The 1926 team was Bluffton's second-ever track team Bluffton High School's outstanding track and field tradition is closing in on 100...
Apr 4, 2023


This 104-year-ago event changed the face of Main Street
Russell Hotel is gone - Citizens National Bank stands it its place It if wasn’t for the First Mennonite Church steeple in the background,...
Mar 30, 2023


When coal powered Bluffton
One of many village smokestacks no longer standing No way is this Bluffton. Actually it is. First, some hints. No one under 65 can...
Mar 28, 2023
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