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?...

Passenger train passing through Bluffton from Findlay around 1920 Vacation plans in order? That question asked by two earlier generations...

And they traveled there on the Nickel Plate Railroad from Bluffton, to Findlay to Chicago In 1893 the village of Bluffton (population...

129 graduations ago each student gave a presentation at commencement and The Bluffton News printed a summary of what the students said –...

Prior to 1919 it was the largest building on Bluffton's Main Street If you can identify this Bluffton location, then you must be a time...

This story includes the complete Bluffton News version and several photographs of the accident Imagine an out-of-control and fast-moving...

During its lifetime, its traffic included pedestrians, horse and buggies, cattle and the earliest of motorized vehicles all the way to...

Like, Bluffton, Rawson was a stop on the Lake Erie and Western Railroad Like Bluffton, the railroad came to Rawson and Mt. Cory in 1872...

Seated from left are Bluffton cousins, no doubt fluent in the local Swiss dialect, Jake Lehman, C.C. Hofstetter and David Moser. It’s the...

Here’s a Lake Erie and Western Railroad passenger train traveling south of Bluffton toward Beaverdam and Lima. We believe that the...

Here are two extremely rare photographs of Northern Ohio Railway steam locomotives. Both photos were taken in the rural countryside...

Here’s Richland Township, Allen County, Ohio, in 1880. You’ll discover several things, including a much smaller Bluffton than today and...

Yellow fever expert was a Bluffton native A yellow fever specialist and expert. Dr. Robert Drake Murray, of international renown, was a...

Milestones in the life of Bluffton, Ohio, railroads 1833 Joseph DeFord builds cabin on banks of the Riley Michael Neuenschwander and...

Samuel Yoder - first in a series Samuel S. Yoder’s name does not register in the minds of many, if any, Bluffton residents today. Click...

Will Triplett took this photo of three little Bluffton girls at the turn of an earlier century. We don't know if the girls are related or...

METHODIST EPISCOPAL PICNIC Although this photo identifies few Bluffton people photographed it offers several features that reveal...

And, why is Main Street laid out northeast to southwest? Where is the earliest settled section of Bluffton? The map accompanying this...

Where was the first school building? What became of it? The answers may surprise you The Victorian Bluffton school constructed in 1875,...