Mar 11, 2024
Roller skate at your own risk on Grove St.
And other important news items from 95 years ago this week in Bluffton • Warning to children roller skating on Grove Street • 77...
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Feb 20, 2024
Presidential candidate spoke here 101 years ago
William Jennings Bryan's visit was part of the 1922-23 college series; and some thoughts on why Bluffton succeeds in these ventures Few...
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Dec 4, 2023
1927 Commercial Bank Christmas Savings Club
Part 2 of our Iconic Bluffton Christas ad feature Commerical Bank distributed $8,000 to its Christmas Savings customers There’s nothing...
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Nov 11, 2023
When Calvin Coolidge was president
Many familiar last names in the BHS class of 1926 - including Herr, Niswander, Moser, Steiner, Bell, Badertscher, Balmer, Gratz,...
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Oct 24, 2023
Is your great-grandparent in this 1925 BHS band?
"Senior" members of this website will recognize several band members. Just look closely. Here's members of the Bluffton High School band,...
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Oct 16, 2023
Preview of this week's ghost story presentations
Watch out if you hike near the Scioto march - in 1925 farmers captured a 75-pound timber wolf Welcome to Bluffton’s dark and stormy...
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Aug 22, 2023
When bib overalls were in style
Meet students attending the Phillips country school in 1926 Bib overalls were in fashion went this one-room country school photo was...
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Aug 22, 2023
One of Ruby Beery Murray's first, first grade classes
It's 1928. Herbert Hoover is elected president president. Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie. The Winter Olympics take place in St....
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Aug 22, 2023
One century ago in the 5th grade
Meet members of the Bluffton High School class of 1930 Meet Bluffton fifth graders one century ago. It's 1923 and these are members of...
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Aug 16, 2023
The day 500 vehicles an hour passed through Bluffton
On Labor Day 1927 - thanks to the Dixie Highway Imagine 500 vehicles in one hour traveling down Main Street Bluffton. That’s eight per...
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Jul 21, 2023
Walking Main Street on a summer day in the 1920s
A photo certainly deserving a thousand words; we've provided 500 Here’s a summer day in downtown Bluffton in the early-to-mid-1920s. As...
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Jun 4, 2023
Where Bluffton learned to swim 100 summers ago
Ever hear of "the lower end of the Buckeye?" Swimmers in Bluffton in the 1920s learned to swim in the “lower end” of the Buckeye. Here's...
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May 18, 2023
102 years ago at Indian Lake
Familiar names include Hauenstein, Hochstettler, Swank, Patterson, Montgomery, Triplett, Kibele and others Bluffton Boy Scouts in 1920-21...
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Feb 11, 2023
Liquor down the drain
Jan. 5, 1928 – Bluffton council watches former Mayor Hauenstein From the Jan. 5, 1928, Bluffton News comes this interesting front page...
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Feb 1, 2023
99 Bluffton HS senior class plays ago
A cast with lots of familiar last names... Geiger, Steiner, Yoakam, Niswander and others It's the 1923-24 school year. • Calvin Coolidge...
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Jul 8, 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...
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Apr 20, 2022
2 views of Ropp Hall you've never seen
Ropp residence hall on the Bluffton University campus dates back to an earlier era. The black and white photo shows an early spring view...
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Mar 4, 2022
BHS girls’ basketball at 100
If you’ve ever wondered how long girls in Bluffton have played basketball, this photograph takes the sport back one century. Here is the...
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Mar 2, 2022
21 win for this '36-37 team
And a Class B state tournament contender Here’s the impressive 1936-37 Bluffton High School boys’ basketball team that advanced to the...
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