Nov 1, 2023
Countless decades of teaching experience
Meet Bluffton elementary school's 1956-57 teachers and staff members Bluffton’s current senior generation can identify these elementary...
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Sep 27, 2023
St. John's UCC baptismal font
Created by Peter Klassen in the 1930s - includes six ceramic pieces Baptismal at St. John's United Church of Christ Located in the church...
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Sep 27, 2023
Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Male Chorus - 1939
Many familiar faces: Burkholder, Reichenbach, Kohli, Messinger, Basinger, Badertscher, Zuercher, Althaus, Welty and many others Here are...
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Sep 25, 2023
Two dozen Bluffton brushes with fame, plus some famous people who called Bluffton home
Or, what does Bluffton, Jimmie Doolittle, William McKinnley, Einstein, a former Mexican president and Phyllis Diller have in common?...
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Sep 1, 2023
Outstanding in their field - love those Stetson hats
Meet the Bluffton HS Future Farmers of America 1936-37 This photo makes us want to go out and purchase a nice Stetson hat. Meet the...
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Aug 29, 2023
Meet 1910 St. John's Reformed confirmation class
With Niswanders, Basingers, Luginbuhls, Matters and Criblezs Members of the 1910 St. John’s Reformed Church (today it is St. John's...
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Aug 21, 2023
Ralph Locher - famous from Bluffton
Bluffton HS and Bluffton College grad became Mayor of Cleveland and Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court Have you ever wonder what famous...
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Jul 31, 2023
1915 Richland singing class
Many familiar last names like Amstutz, Burkholder, Luginbuhl, Neuenschwander, Bracy, Zimmerly, Sutter and others Here’s the Richland...
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Jul 23, 2023
Gratz Shoe Store was a Main Street business
Meet Walter Gratz, owner of Gratz Family Shoe Store, 115 N. Main St., Bluffton. In the photo below look for the sign with the green...
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Jul 19, 2023
Big Red - a Bluffton classic
This 1928 Chevy was originally Elmer Short's delivery truck "We even gave it a grease job because we were going to take my dad, Evan's...
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Jul 12, 2023
Years before 45817 existed
Bluffton postmasters - photo taken in the 1930s Six early Bluffton postmasters sat for this Will Triplett photograph in the 1930s. This...
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Jun 30, 2023
Lydia Burkholder's grandchildren
In 1943 were spread out from first grade through sophomores From Oct. 1, 1942, Bluffton News – With at least one grandchild in every...
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Jun 22, 2023
More on Bluffton's brush with history
Who was that man on the bus, if it wasn't General Pershing? Spoiler alert – You’d better read this entire feature to the very end. The...
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Jun 21, 2023
Another Bluffton brush with history
Imagine sitting on a bus next to General Pershing - it happened If you had the opportunity, what might you ask the late General John J....
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Jun 13, 2023
Bluffton's first club for young men
How many silk ties, bowlers, Hombergs and very stiff shirt collars are in this photo? How many silk ties, bowlers, Hombergs and very...
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Jun 13, 2023
One of our earliest families
The Cornwell family with Stratton and Ewing connections Meet one of this community’s first families with connections to Ewings and...
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May 24, 2023
Our town was on the Underground Railroad
Could be Bluffton's best-kept secrets Details in a recently found obituary of a Bluffton man who died 125 years ago could be one of the...
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Apr 19, 2023
Bluffton's brush with history
Several area residents who knew or met famous people A Bluffton News item from Oct. 29, 1896, states that J.S. Jennings of Armorsville...
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Apr 5, 2023
The Klay brothers
Their parents, John and Barbara Zuercher Klay, were among Bluffton's first settlers The Klay brothers, from left, John, Gideon, Jacob,...
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Jan 2, 2023
Bluffton's first "selfie"
Will Triplett, pioneer village photographer took this photo of himself; he used a cable connected to the shutter of his camera Few...
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