

It's 1974 and I can see your house from here
Hey, Bluffton High School doesn't look like that today! Here's an aerial photo of Bluffton taken in 1974. The scene above shows Bluffton...
Jul 20, 2022


We really live in boring times today
Check out frequent Bluffton visitors in the 1880s and 1890s When was the last time you met a tramp, peddler or just a person of interest?...
Jul 18, 2022


Picture this: 1,200 residents take a train excursion to Detroit from Bluffton in 1899
Passenger train passing through Bluffton from Findlay around 1920 Vacation plans in order? That question asked by two earlier generations...
Jul 8, 2022


John Murray - one of the reasons Bluffton is such an interesting town
John Murray died July 2, 2022. This tribute, by Fred Steiner, is followed by John's obituary. John Murray is one reason Bluffton is such...
Jul 5, 2022


Over 100 Bluffton residents attended the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
And they traveled there on the Nickel Plate Railroad from Bluffton, to Findlay to Chicago In 1893 the village of Bluffton (population...
Jun 24, 2022


Are you kidding? An electric trolley on Main Street?
Western Ohio Railway served Bluffton from 1906 to 1932 An electric trolly car on Bluffton’s Main Street? Yes, from 1906 to 1932 the...
Jun 20, 2022


Hey, gramps, what were the '60s like?
One way to answer this is to check out this Bluffton photo If you want to know what the 1960s were like in Bluffton, but don't have a...
Jun 3, 2022


1893 Bluffton HS grads speak their minds
129 graduations ago each student gave a presentation at commencement and The Bluffton News printed a summary of what the students said –...
May 27, 2022
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