Apr 26, 2023
A closer look at two iconic statements
On a physical level, these two statements stand at the highest level of any such public messaging in Bluffton The fountain of wisdom...
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Apr 20, 2023
Can you imagine college students constructing this building?
The barn was the first Bluffton College gymnasium - built by students in 1916. Few Bluffton residents today realize that the first...
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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 18, 2023
Bluffton's boys of summer 56 seasons ago
This team of Pirates won the Class A sectional title Meet the Bluffton High School baseball team of 56 seasons ago. It’s the team of...
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Apr 13, 2023
Buried treasure in Bluffton?
This story offers clues on where to start digging Buried treasure in Bluffton? Nah. Well, maybe. We’ve collected several local stories...
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Apr 12, 2023
Once a frequent Bluffton visitor
Lima-built Berkshire steam locomotive 759 Nickel Plate Road locomotive 759 sets off from Lima toward Bluffton in this photo taken in...
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Apr 11, 2023
50 track seasons ago at Bluffton HS
Meet the Pirate boys' track team of 1973 Meet the Bluffton High School boys’ track team of one-half century past. This team, in 1973, was...
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Apr 10, 2023
Five covered wagons and a performing bear
Passed through Bluffton last Saturday - 125 years ago this month It happened in Bluffton 125 years ago this month - April 1898 A gang of...
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Apr 7, 2023
The Beaver Dam saloon fight of 1895
No sooner did the authorities enter the saloon than a combat was entered into without taking time to sign articles of agreement. The...
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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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Apr 4, 2023
BHS track tradition reaching 100 seasons
The 1926 team was Bluffton's second-ever track team Bluffton High School's outstanding track and field tradition is closing in on 100...
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Mar 30, 2023
This 104-year-ago event changed the face of Main Street
Russell Hotel is gone - Citizens National Bank stands it its place It if wasn’t for the First Mennonite Church steeple in the background,...
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Mar 28, 2023
When coal powered Bluffton
One of many village smokestacks no longer standing No way is this Bluffton. Actually it is. First, some hints. No one under 65 can...
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Mar 27, 2023
When Bluffton turned 100
It was the summer of 1961 It’s 1961 on Main Street – but those Model T’s give a feeling of the 1920s. This photograph was taken during...
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Mar 23, 2023
Today it's Steinmetz soccer field
Once upon a time Bluffton had its own electrical power plant and water plant - you are looking at it Let's see, how old must you be to...
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Mar 23, 2023
A walk down Main St. 60 years ago
It's August 1963 - a warm summer day in downtown Bluffton. Dick Boehr took this photo and let's name the businesses from right to left: •...
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Mar 20, 2023
Was Mrs. Gratz your Kindergarten teacher?
Here's members of the BHS class of 1967 in 1954-55 Bluffton students in Mrs. Walter Gratz’s private Kindergarten in 1954-55. Front row...
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