On New Year’s Day 1887, Albert Spangler took a team of six horses hitched to six bobsleds to Bryan’s courthouse…
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HOMESTEAD … The Johnston Homestead, built circa 1890 at Road R and Road S, has since been lost to fire.…
GARBAGE TRUCK … In 1946, the City of Bryan purchased this “Refuse-Getter” garbage truck at a cost of $4,754. According…
POWERS STATION … Powers Station and Store, early 1900s, was located at the corner of State Route 20 and County…
Classes began in the southern section of the Kunkle school. The first schoolhouse in the Kunkle area was a wooden…
EXPLOSION… This week’s photo shows the Wauseon School explosion at the corner of Clinton and Elm Streets on March 19,…
MASSIVE SNOWFALL … In January 1978, following the blizzard, Patrick, Chrissy, and Dennis Finney enjoy the snow in Metamora. Thank…
Fire destroyed the Carroll-Ames Hardware building on the west side of the square in Bryan. Construction of the 66-feet-wide, 16,500-square-feet,…
The Village of Montpelier issued a demolition permit for the historic former Montpelier Creamery building, located on the west side…
The fire in Fayette on June 28th, 1908, destroyed several buildings. Left to right: bakery, smokehouse, restaurant, paint shop, machinery…
The Williams County commissioners accepted the first county courthouse in Defiance from the contractor. Prior to 1845, Williams County included…
REUNION… The 1901 Borton Family Reunion was hosted at the home of Arthur W. and Kate Borton. Thank you to…
Featured this week is a photo of the B. Nelen Livery, Feed, and Sales Stable, which stood at the corner…
Noted polar explorer Paul Allman Siple died in Arlington, Virginia. Siple was born in Montpelier on December 18, 1908. When…
The so-called “Bomber Barn” stood for many years near the southeast corner of Ohio Route 107 and County Road 6.…
This week’s photo: Boys from the Fulton Centralized School class of 1921 are shown in this image. Thank you to…
This colorized “Greetings from Kunkle, Ohio” picture postcard, postmarked in 1911, features a number of Kunkle views from that time…
This week’s photo is the Winameg Market, built in the early 1860s and burned in 1986. Thank you to the…
MAYOR … Archbold’s first mayor, Fredrick Stotzer, stands with his son, Henry W., in front of the original harness shop,…
Scaffolding at Edgerton’s school building collapsed during construction, injuring seven workers. In 1867, this two-story school building was constructed at…
This vintage image shows the east side of the 100 block of Edgerton’s North Michigan Avenue. The three two-story brick…
SCHOOL … This photo was taken on October 8, 1911 at the school in Lyons, Ohio. Do you have a…
LANDMARK… One of Bryan’s early landmarks was a large two-story wooden frame structure erected about 1842 by Dr. Thomas Kent…
SAUDER … The barn where Sauder Woodworking began in 1934 is shown here. Do you have a Fulton County Historic…
The West Unity fire department was created in 1892 and utilized a variety of firefighting apparatus during its first 50…
SYRUP… Ira and Sadie Fether with Sam and Vernie Lynn gather maple syrup on the Ida Fether farm south of…
This very interesting colorized vintage photograph, believed to have been taken circa 1909–1910, shows a “Bridge Wreck Near Edgerton,…
The Fulton County Fair Board in 1950, left to right: Lewis Ryan, Frank Tanner, Mr. Taylor, Rev. Zimmerman, E. J.…
COLLISION … A fireman was killed and two people injured when a Cincinnati Northern Railroad special train ran into a…
MACHINERY … Farm machinery was shipped to G. W. Hull in Wauseon in 1872. Farmers who came to collect their…