Mar 17, 2023
How many saloons in Bluffton in the 1890s?
12 or 13, no one knows for certain How many saloons existed in Bluffton in the 1890s? No one is really certain. There may have been 12 or...
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Mar 16, 2023
Schumacher and Diller families
With Zimmerly, Steiner, Luginbuhl, Suter, Hilty, Geiger, Welty, Moser and many other local family connections Within these two family...
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Mar 15, 2023
The Great Flood of 1913
Caused destruction in Bluffton 110 years ago this month Cherry Street 1913 and 2023 This flood became so devastating that it had a name:...
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Mar 9, 2023
In case your forgot what snow looks like...
Here's the snowfall of the decade of the 1920s in Bluffton It's March. When did it snow last? The winter of 2022-23 turned out to be a...
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Mar 8, 2023
At 25 mph in Bluffton during the winter of '14
109 winters ago Clair Weaver and Albert Benroth invented the aero-cycle On Feb. 14, 1914, Clair Weaver posed for this photograph with his...
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Mar 7, 2023
If you thought DDT was dangerous...
Read these stories about nitroglycerin accidents causing deaths in the 1890s The 1890s oil boom brought to Bluffton prosperity plus some...
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Mar 6, 2023
70 years ago spraying DDT
Answered the mosquito problem in Bluffton Note: If this doesn’t frighten you, nothing will. The Village of Bluffton (and probably many,...
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Mar 3, 2023
55 basketball seasons ago
This Pirate squad scored 103 points against Lima Perry Fifty-five seasons ago, these Pirates, with their black Red Ball Jets tennis shoes...
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Mar 2, 2023
Did they perform anything by Kool & the Gang?
Meet the 1980 Bluffton High School show choir Introducing the Bluffton High School show choir from the 1980 school year. Front row: ...
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Mar 1, 2023
A grocery and bakery in 1900 with 2 delivery wagons
This Main Street building now houses a CPA office The J.L. Doty Grocery and Bakery was once a thriving Bluffton business operating in the...
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Feb 24, 2023
Bluffton's 1960 antique car show
By the way, the telephone booth did not have a dial phone It's the summer of 1960. Main Street is filled with old cars. There's plenty to...
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Feb 21, 2023
She scored 58 points against Spencerville
In 1927 Bluffton HS athlete Olive Locher set a record never to be touched We’re putting it mildly to say Bluffton High School girls’...
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Feb 17, 2023
This tank was purchased through a subscription drive
It joined the Bluffton Fire Department 70 years ago This photo is one example in the changes a small town fire department experiences...
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Feb 16, 2023
A blizzard stopped this AC&Y freight outside Bluffton
February 1977 taught us not to mess with Mother Nature Forty-six winters ago this month – it was the famous blizzard of 1977 – a freight...
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Feb 14, 2023
6 Habegger brothers
Third generation of Swiss immigrants to live in the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Settlement The sons of Isaac and Rebecca Shank Habegger posed...
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Feb 11, 2023
Liquor down the drain
Jan. 5, 1928 – Bluffton council watches former Mayor Hauenstein From the Jan. 5, 1928, Bluffton News comes this interesting front page...
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Feb 9, 2023
A great Bluffton football story for Super Bowl Sunday
It's all about Bluffton Beaver number 44 - Elbert Dubenion - 9 seasons with the Buffalo Bills VIDEOS AND PHOTOS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS...
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