Jan 9, 2024
Peter and Katherina Liechty Schnegg
The family arrived in America at the port of New Orleans Peter and Katherina Liechty Schnegg came to America from Switzerland in 1890....
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Jan 9, 2024
This team used the "set shot"
It's the Bluffton College Beavers of 1947-48 Introducing the Bluffton College men’s basketball team of 76 seasons ago. This team played...
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Jan 8, 2024
Can you image a trip to Lima in 1905 on an electric trolley boarding on Bluffton's Main Street?
It was 119 years ago this week that Main Street Bluffton changed forever. It witnessed the arrival of the first interurban (electric...
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Jan 5, 2024
Could be one of the 25 most interesting people ever to live in Bluffton
A man named Gustavus Adolphus once lived here in 1880. That’s one name he went by. He also went by the name Dr. Rosenburg. Whichever one...
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Jan 4, 2024
125 Christmases ago, 2 Bluffton railroads offered excursions
Sorry you missed them - maybe next year It’s too late to take advantage of Bluffton’s two passenger railroad holiday excursions, which...
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Jan 3, 2024
When Pocahontas coal was $7 a ton
1937 advertiser of the week The words of coal today sound as foreign phrases to anyone who grew up before a coal furnace warmed Bluffton...
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Jan 2, 2024
A 1925 plan for Bluffton College's growth
It included a seminary building, an addition to Ropp Hall and a music building The future seldom what is seems. Take Bluffton College’s...
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Dec 30, 2023
What's so historic about Bluffton history?
30,000-plus viewers must be on to something What’s so historic about Bluffton history anyway? Approximately 804 days ago, Oct. 18, 2021,...
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Dec 29, 2023
No ordinary 1899 cat
No ordinary young Bluffton woman Ordinary cats don’t exist, so the saying goes. The white feline in this photo proves that. It convinced...
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Dec 28, 2023
Could be Ohio's oldest new year's tradition
Swiss Community Historical Society will sing traditional New Year's carols on Dec. 31 Go to bottom of this story for the carols in German...
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Dec 23, 2023
Nothing like a Maytag wringer washer
In 1936 you could buy one on Main Street from C.F. Niswander Prior to the Citizens National Bank expansion, at 116 S. Main St., Bluffton,...
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Dec 23, 2023
It's the Fuller Brush Man
Nelson F. Steiner probably knocked on your grandparents' door in the 1950s It was the day of the door-to-door salesman. For 15 Christmas...
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Dec 22, 2023
A Bluffton Christmas memory from the late Robert Kreider
He called his memories "Nostalgic ramblings for the reader but therapy for the writer" The late Robert Kreider, who spent several of his...
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Dec 21, 2023
Santa's 1951 Bluffton visit
When he visited a downtown Bluffton that resembles Main Street 75 years later...or does it? Christmas in downtown Bluffton in the early...
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Dec 21, 2023
90 BHS class plays ago
Senior class of 1933 presents "She Stoops to Conquer" Ninety class plays ago, "She Stoops to Conquer," was presented by the Bluffton High...
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Dec 20, 2023
From Bluffton's Christmas past
Check out Santa and his reindeer on the Sinclair gas station at the corner of Main and College, a la 1950s Imagine for a moment that a...
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Dec 20, 2023
Violins, violas, cellos and more
Bluffton High School orchestra 66 school years ago Introducing members of the Bluffton High School orchestra during the 1957-58 school...
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