Feb 4, 2022
Bluffton's Hauenstein druggists and musicians
Steve Hauenstein is the author of this material. His bio is at the bottom of the feature. Heinrich (Henry) Hauenstein was born in Unter...
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Feb 1, 2022
This BHS team owned only 1 basketball
Can you believe it? This team goes back 106 sports seasons ago. Once you read the players' names you might think this could be a roster...
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Jan 30, 2022
1966-67 Pirates - number 44 played football at Ohio State
This is the second team featured in this series of BHS boys' basketball teams. Here's the Bluffton High School Pirates varsity basketball...
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Jan 28, 2022
'64-65 Pirates (and Beavers)
First team following Beaverdam High School's annexation into the Bluffton school system. This team had five Bluffton players and five...
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Jan 27, 2022
Johannes and Elisabeth Steiner Habegger
Johannes (or John) Habegger, at age 22, came to the Bluffton-Pandora Settlement from Switzerland with his parents, Johannes Ulrich and...
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Jan 22, 2022
66 years of Bluffton postal history
The six Bluffton postmasters in this iconic portrait taken by Will Triplett represent 66 years of postal history in Bluffton. The eras...
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Jan 18, 2022
Many last names in this story
It’s likely that any reader of this column might find an ancestor listed in this story. That’s because this family story includes many...
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Jan 15, 2022
1900 Diller family portrait
Diller Family Portrait - outdoor on rugs Here is a Diller family portrait taken by Will Triplett. Back of the framed photo is...
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Jan 13, 2022
The snowstorm of an earlier century
If there's such a thing as a "100-year flood," then this photo must be the "100-year winter ice storm." In "reading" this photograph,...
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Jan 12, 2022
Derailment on the AC & Y
It was a winter afternoon in 1965 when this Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad freight train derailed in Pandora, Ohio. Charles Hilty,...
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Jan 11, 2022
Mathias and Lidia Augstburger Badertscher
In a search for Bluffton area Badertscher families we found three going back to the 1700s. Christian Badertscher (1782-1838) married...
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Jan 7, 2022
A two-room rural Bluffton school
From 6 to 10 persons who attended Diller rural school entered the medical profession The Diller country school, rural Richland Township,...
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Jan 6, 2022
Thomas and Catherine Hilti Fett
Many of our country roads are named after residents who settled in the area and who owned land along the road carrying their name. Among...
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Jan 5, 2022
Main Street - one century past
Two photos from a Bluffton era we never knew There are times when small packages offer huge surprises. The top photo represents one of...
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Jan 3, 2022
Methodist picnic in 1890
METHODIST EPISCOPAL PICNIC Although this photo identifies few Bluffton people photographed it offers several features that reveal...
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Dec 24, 2021
When Santa came to Bluffton in 1951 (?)
Note: Dennis Morrison shared the photo with us. Christmas in downtown Bluffton in the early 1950, maybe 1951, part of a Bluffton Business...
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Dec 22, 2021
Triplett and Amstutz families
This column’s focus on a Bluffton Amstutz family also includes the Will Triplett family information, as Mr. Triplett married into it. The...
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