Jul 24, 2023
Naturally, Bluffton
Flying things from Motter Park's microscopic world Motter Park's flying circus is alive and well this month. Here are some close-up...
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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 23, 2023
One-time frequent Bluffton visitors
Here's an interesting publicity page from an Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad brochure. It shows several railroad freight and...
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Jul 22, 2023
The day the earth shook in Bluffton
IT WAS MARCH OF 1937 Eighty-three years ago this spring – the year was 1937 – Bluffton residents felt the tremors of Ohio’s most severe...
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Jul 21, 2023
Designed to carry the load
Can you identify the location of this bridge replaced by a two-lane structure? Crossing the Riley Two photographs show a former bridge...
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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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Jul 21, 2023
When men's softball was king
Here’s the Triplett 1945 softball team. Front from left, Oliver Steiner, Kenneth Moser, Hubert Basinger, Donavin Moser, Ralph Augsburger,...
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Jul 20, 2023
What the bird saw in 1950 flying over Bluffton
CLICK HERE TO SEE AERIAL VIEWS OF BLUFFTON IN 1974 Here’s an aerial view of Bluffton taken in the early 1950s. Be careful, you may end up...
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Jul 19, 2023
114 July Fourth's ago - Jule Benroth set a record
He amazed a large Bluffton crowd by driving 50 miles per hour down Main Street The crowds gasped as the car roared by and it was really a...
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Jul 19, 2023
Naturally, Bluffton
It's a fritillary butterfly in Motter Metro Park July in Bluffton is a "yellow" month. Here's a meadow fritillary butterfly sunning...
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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 18, 2023
How the I-75 overpasses were built
Photos reveal construction underway in the early 1960s If you are curious about how the overpasses on Interstate 75 came to be, these...
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Jul 17, 2023
But, where are the awnings?
It's Main Street Bluffton in 1966 Let’s turn back Bluffton’s clock to May 10, 1966. The storefront awnings were on their way, but not...
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Jul 16, 2023
1963 Main Street make over underway
Can you identify this scene on Bluffton's Main Street? This was North Main Street Bluffton in the summer of 1963. You are looking at...
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Jul 15, 2023
It's 1966 and we are walking up Main Street
Any idea what that ZT license plate means? (Answer is below) It’s the fall of 1966 and you are walking north on Bluffton’s Main Street....
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Jul 13, 2023
90th anniversary of Dillinger's Bluffton visit in August
Bluffton History Day will recall the events of Aug. 14, 1933 A Bluffton history day, recalling the 90th anniversary of the Dillinger bank...
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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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