PHOTOS from Travis family archive: LEFT) Betsey Travis Angus and Phyllis Diller. RIGHT) Eloise and Boyd Travis with Phyllis Diller. Story...

When Beaverdam was the crossroads of America P-K Truck Stop Restaurant in Beaverdam once stood at the cross roads of America When U.S. 30...

Involving Tomoyuki Yamashita, Albert Einstein, F.D. Roosevelt, George Marshall, Mickey Rooney and Carl Spaatz In November 1945 Bluffton...

Daylight Saving Time was a phrase foreign to the general public, and the time change was determined by each locality Here’s a thought:...

Described as the most perfectly visible here in more than a century Historically, April is apparently eclipse month in Bluffton. From the...

Sportsmen's Club and could be Lions members cleaned up the Buckeye This photo from the mid-to-late 1940s shows a number of people who...

Many familiar last names including Triplett, Hauenstein, Diller, Basinger, Hirscher, Baumgartner and others The Travel Class was one of...

Bluffton News editor Ted Biery had lots to say about them; They may have been the oldest living twins in Ohio No one denies Bluffton has...

Karl Gable, scoutmaster and Paul Wingate, assistant scoutmaster Meet the Bluffton Boy Scouts of 1941 with Karl Gable scoutmaster and Paul...

He went under the name of Lazarus Basinger Lazarus "Lotzy" Basinger, a Bluffton fixture who died in 1964, was known by all the youngsters...

Truly a 10 cent quality - meanwhile watch the 1940 Masons on parade It’s 1940. Members of the Bluffton Masonic Lodge parade down Main...

And, some surprisingly famous persons who once called Bluffton home Have you experienced a brush with history? Over the decades it seems...

74 Christmases ago a Bluffton Main Street business sold both sizes of records If you’ve ever shopped in Prosser and Prosser, 119 N. Main...

Meet members of the Bluffton High School orchestra during the 1948-49 school year The strings program is among the oldest continuing...

Hi-Y members included familiar names: Bixel, Triplehorn, Herr, Klay, Augsburger, Steiner, Ramseyer, Reichenbach, Stratton, Gratz,...

Halloween Carnival benefit for the Community Fire Association Seventy-six Halloweens ago the Beaverdam Community Fire Association said,...

"Strange object seen here like flying saucers" Bet you didn’t know that a “strange illuminated object” was sighted in rural Bluffton. It...

South of Bluffton at Gratz Crossing This is the Dixie Highway, or “old” U.S. 25, south of Bluffton, in 1944. It was a brick highway when...

The first-ever diesel locomotive passed through town on a test run Sunday’s run of the demonstrator was witnessed by only a handful of...

It even had an amateur radio club Seventy-five years ago, Bluffton was an active player in the ham (aka amateur radio) airwaves. It had...