

Meanwhile in Ada
A scene from 1902 at the Pennsylvania station in a village south of Bluffton A few miles south of Bluffton, traveling on the County Line...
Apr 18, 2022
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Your great-grandmother's basketball team
Meet the 1916 Bluffton High School girls' basketball team Here’s the Bluffton High School girls’ basketball team of 1916. Front from...
Apr 6, 2022
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Bluffton women's fashions in 1906
Can't take our eyes off those hats with feathers, flowers, lace and ribbons. It was 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake....
Apr 4, 2022
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106 baseball seasons ago at Bluffton College
Meet the 1916 Bluffton College baseball team Members standing from left, Coach H.W. Berky, Kenneth Kaufman, John Geiger, Harold Alderfer,...
Mar 16, 2022
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They travel to away games by horse and wagon
Meet the 1913-14 Bluffton High School boys’ basketball team. Basketball as a sport had existed only 21 seasons when the Bluffton team...
Feb 14, 2022
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1900 Diller family portrait
Diller Family Portrait - outdoor on rugs Here is a Diller family portrait taken by Will Triplett. Back of the framed photo is...
Jan 15, 2022
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The snowstorm of an earlier century
If there's such a thing as a "100-year flood," then this photo must be the "100-year winter ice storm." In "reading" this photograph,...
Jan 13, 2022
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A two-room rural Bluffton school
From 6 to 10 persons who attended Diller rural school entered the medical profession The Diller country school, rural Richland Township,...
Jan 7, 2022
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Main Street - one century past
Two photos from a Bluffton era we never knew There are times when small packages offer huge surprises. The top photo represents one of...
Jan 5, 2022
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Do you live on RR1 or RR2?
1907 postal delivery photo in Richland Township Does RR 1 or RR 2 mean anything to you? How about initials RFD? Those last three initials...
Oct 13, 2021
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