

This tank was purchased through a subscription drive
It joined the Bluffton Fire Department 70 years ago This photo is one example in the changes a small town fire department experiences...
Feb 17, 2023
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It's 1959 in Bluffton
Here are the members of the Order of the Eastern Star, Bluffton Chapter 380 Here's a photograph of Bluffton Order of Eastern Star,...
Feb 2, 2023
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It's October 1950...at the Alpha Gamma Club
Bluffton's finest dresses up for party This was an Alpha Gamma event and "come as you are" was not an option. This group included many of...
Jan 25, 2023
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The bobcat, wildcat, puma, or whatever it was, returned in 1958
Part 2 of our mystery beast series from the 1950s Remember the Bluffton mystery animal from 1956 that we wrote about last week? (Click...
Dec 9, 2022
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Bluffton's Main Street soda fountain
Charles Hankish, senior, was a Bluffton institution MORE PHOTOS BELOW - Are you old enough to identify this former Bluffton businessman?...
May 17, 2022
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This was Main Street Bluffton in 1959
Did you know that in 1958-59 there was a hotel on the second floor of what is today Reichenbach and Steiner CPA? SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM TO...
Apr 8, 2022
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When Santa came to Bluffton in 1951 (?)
Note: Dennis Morrison shared the photo with us. Christmas in downtown Bluffton in the early 1950, maybe 1951, part of a Bluffton Business...
Dec 24, 2021
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NKP 718 passes through Bluffton
Paul Diller took this color slide photo of Nickel Plate Road 718 steam locomotive hauling fast freight through Bluffton in the mid-1950s....
Dec 19, 2021
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