Jun 18, 2023
Forgotten Bluffton on the Big Riley
A swinging bridge from 125 years ago in Orange Township No one in Bluffton today can identify this scene. It’s Big Riley Creek in Orange...
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Jun 14, 2023
Bluffton African-American history comes to life
Including a Bluffton barber, college student and performance of Fisk singers A little known, interesting Bluffton fact is that the...
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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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Jun 10, 2023
What's your recollection of Bluffton nicknames?
Tom Bell provides his "Fab Fourteen" nickname challenge Contributed by Tom Bell The 1950s and 1960s could be the Golden Age of Nicknames...
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Jun 9, 2023
Can you find your house?
Not if it was built after 1950 It's when Bluffton was a three stoplight town. Can you find your house? If it was built after 1950 you are...
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Jun 8, 2023
24 years before Roswell
What did the Gerber twins witness flying overhead in 1923? What did the twin Gerber brothers witness flying over their farm in the summer...
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Jun 7, 2023
Why sewing for babies is more fun
Than sewing for adults - Mary Pannabecker Steiner's blog explains Sewing for babies is way more fun than sewing for adults. Everything is...
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Jun 6, 2023
Older than any traceable antiquity
Who constructed the wall on Marsh Run? Why? When? An ascetic limestone wall, where the waters of Marsh Run join Big Riley Creek on that...
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Jun 5, 2023
Last chance for a walk down Main Street in the 1890s
Tuesday's walking tours at 4 and 6 p.m. A few spots remain on Tuesday afternoon's walking tour of Main Street Bluffton in 1890. Stop in...
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Jun 4, 2023
Where Bluffton learned to swim 100 summers ago
Ever hear of "the lower end of the Buckeye?" Swimmers in Bluffton in the 1920s learned to swim in the “lower end” of the Buckeye. Here's...
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May 31, 2023
All that remains is a cemetery
Ever hear of Cannonsburg, Hassan, Webster, Armorsville... the story of Bluffton's neighboring ghost towns A Bluffton News item from Oct....
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May 30, 2023
Take a walk up Main Street in 1890
RSVP to Bluffton Public Library by Friday for Tuesday, June 6, tour Ever wonder what Main Street Bluffton looked like in 1890? Fred...
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May 29, 2023
Large sack Gold Medal flour $1.05
This week only at Your City Market on Bluffton's Main Street – in 1942 It’s 1942 and Bluffton’s City Market grocery on Main Street offers...
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May 28, 2023
Bluffton's greening grass
In our month of Maying...naturally, Bluffton Upon the greening grass. Because we still experience the month of Maying we offer four...
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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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May 24, 2023
The era before high school bands
Bluffton Merchants Band - all men and all brass (except for the drums) Meet members of the Bluffton Merchants Band from the early 1890s....
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