Oct 31, 2023
These guys once ran Bluffton industry
In 1937 Bluffton was a one factory town - Triplett was the factory In 1937 the Triplett Corp. located on Harmon Road was Bluffton’s...
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Oct 30, 2023
37 fifth graders in Mrs. Oyer's classroom
It's the 1936-37 school year - meet the BHS graduates of 1944 Interested in teaching a class of 37 fifth graders? That was Adella Oyer’s...
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Oct 30, 2023
When Jimmie Carter was president
It's the Bluffton High School class of 1979 in the first grade during the 1967-68 school year Meet members of the Bluffton High School...
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Oct 27, 2023
Meet the BHS class of 1913 as juniors
Many familiar last names including Koontz, Gratz, Amstutz, Zimmerly, Steiner, Stauffer, Andrews, Huber, Spangler and Fett Step back 111...
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Oct 26, 2023
Ashless cigar invented in 1919 in Bluffton
Bill Hahn, member of the Bluffton High School class of 1919 held the patent It’s a little-known fact that Bluffton, Ohio, is the home of...
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Oct 26, 2023
Fifth graders gain writing tips
Fred Steiner shared his writing background with Meredith Bixel's social studies classes Bluffton fifth graders gained some writing tips...
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Oct 25, 2023
The sound of music in rural Bluffton
This quartet played the mandolin, zither, accordion and guitar This photograph may change our impressions of rural Bluffton-Pandora life...
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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 23, 2023
Ebenezer women's SS class in 1890s
Members last names included Diller, Bixel, Althaus, Geiger, Augsburger, Bucher, Amstutz, Gratz - probably related to half of the Bluffton...
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Oct 21, 2023
Meet the phantom of ONU
Apparently things do go bump in the night in Ada Ohio Northern University in Ada apparently houses several ghosts we don’t believe, but...
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Oct 20, 2023
A Shawnee "Indian" walked from Oklahoma to Bluffton to see the land where he once camped
Countless stories of the native Americans of forgotten Bluffton From a 1928 Bluffton News, history of the community – While Michael...
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Oct 19, 2023
July 1947 - One month after Roswell
"Strange object seen here like flying saucers" Bet you didn’t know that a “strange illuminated object” was sighted in rural Bluffton. It...
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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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Oct 15, 2023
Questions about a Native American "skirmish" in Richland Township
• And, an impressive lecture presented in Bluffton in 1880 by a Native American; • plus the discovery of three mounds in Putnam County...
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Oct 13, 2023
3 chances to get creeped out next week
• One Bluffton ghost story presentation Tuesday • Two presentations Wednesday Three Bluffton ghost story talks by Fred Steiner take...
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Oct 13, 2023
BHS class of '65 in Kindergarten
Mrs. Gratz was the teacher and the school year was 1952-53 Here’s Mrs. Walter Gratz’s Kindergarten in the 1952-53 school year. These...
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Oct 12, 2023
Bluffton's 1954-55 Kindergarteners
Mrs. Gratz's students in her private Kindergarten Meet Bluffton youth in Mrs. Walter Gratz’s private Kindergarten in 1954-55. Students...
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