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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...

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Over 100 Bluffton residents attended the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

Jun 24, 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...

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1893 Bluffton HS grads speak their minds

May 27, 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 –...

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May 25, 2022

Welcome to the Russell Hotel

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...

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1892 - Bluffton's worst railroad accident

May 21, 2022

1892 - Bluffton's worst railroad accident

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

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May 8, 2022

Bluffton's pre-1900 romantic spot

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

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Apr 25, 2022

Rawson's railroad depot

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...

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Apr 12, 2022

Bluffton People

Moser, Lehman and Hofstetter cousins

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...

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Mar 21, 2022

A Bluffton passenger train on the LE&W

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

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Mar 14, 2022

Somewhere between Bluffton and Pandora

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

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Mar 8, 2022

Richland Township's landowners in 1880

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

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Famous from Bluffton - Dr. Robert Drake Murray

Mar 5, 2022

Bluffton People

Famous from Bluffton - Dr. Robert Drake Murray

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

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Feb 27, 2022

Bluffton railroad history timeline

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

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Feb 25, 2022

Famous from Bluffton -

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...

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3 little Bluffton girls - turn of an earlier century

Feb 18, 2022

Bluffton People

3 little Bluffton girls - turn of an earlier century

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...

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Jan 3, 2022

Methodist picnic in 1890

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

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Where is the earliest settled section of our village?

Oct 10, 2021

Where is the earliest settled section of our village?

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

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Oct 8, 2021