Browsing: Local History
(PHOTOS BY REBECCA MILLER, STAFF) By: Rebecca Miller On Williams County Road O, just east of a tiny “Census-designated place”…
HISTORY LESSON … Kelly Michael, center, interim director of the Williams County Historical Society, served as guest speaker at the…
By: Rebecca Miller Richard Schmucker has lived in and loved his hometown of Pioneer, Ohio for his whole life. He…
ORIGINAL SITE … Pictured here is the original Lyons Oil Company before the company moved to its present location. (PHOTO…
YELLOWSTONE TRAIL SIGNS … Julie Preston-Brink, Director of Fulton County, Ohio Visitors Bureau, displayed the new signs that have been…
HISTORICAL SOCIETY… Fulton County Museum Director John Swearingen speaks to the Fulton County Commissioners to provide them with more information…
METAMORA RESIDENTS … Longtime residents of Metamora tell their stories to the audience at the Evergreen Community Library. Names given…
WAUSEON HOSPITAL … A picture shows what the Wauseon Hospital looked like back in the 1920’s. By: Jacob Kessler The…
HAMER TECH … Related to the late Lou Gerig back row from left to right are great grandson Ian Hoffman,…
HISTORICAL FIND…Ms. Katie Rakes, the village attorney for Stryker, Ohio, holds up the papers that were found while going through…
By: Jennifer Ellison Everyone wants to leave a legacy behind with the work they do throughout their lives. Everyone wants…
(January 31, 1940, 81 years ago): The Bryan Theatre opened on the west side of the square in Bryan. The…
(January 29, 1958, 63 years ago): Ground was broken for the new 11,000-square-foot Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company plant at 509 East…
This vintage winter image shows a variety of horse-drawn conveyances hitched to the iron pipe hitching rail on the south…
From 1921 to 1958, Stryker hosted an annual homecoming celebration over Labor Day weekend. The 1953 homecoming event commemorated Ohio’s…
(January 27, 1889, 132 years ago): The Union Chapel Church of God in Pulaski Township was dedicated. The congregation that…
(January 26, 1849, 172 years ago): Andrew F. Tyler was hanged in Bryan. Tyler was a wandering fortune teller. In…
(January 24, 1837, 184 years ago): William J. Knight, one of the engineers of the Civil War Andrews Raid, was…
(January 23, 1876, 145 years ago): The Primrose Church of God in Millcreek Township was formally dedicated. The Primrose Church…
(January 20, 1901, 120 years ago): The Pulaski Methodist Episcopal (now known as United Methodist) Church was dedicated. The Pulaski…
(January 22, 1888, 133 years ago): The Alvordton United Brethren Church was dedicated. The first church in what is today…
(January 23, 1836, 185 years ago): The village of Centre (now known as Williams Center) was surveyed in Center Township.…
MARKER … The Goll Woods Marker before it was unveiled, Nov. 17, 2018. (PHOTO BY JAMES PRUITT) (Story originally appeared…
AND WE ALL FALL DOWN! … On December 5, 2019, the West Unity Water Tower which had been present in…
MEMORIAL DAY … The Stryker Memorial Day service was held inside the local high school due to wet conditions at…
(1958): Ground was broken for the new 11,000-square-foot Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company plant at Edgerton and Emmett streets in Bryan. In…
Today in Williams County history (January 20, 1874, 144 years ago): Northwest Grange No. 413, Williams County’s first Grange, was…
Let’s take a look back at 1955, shall we? In 1955, the world was ten years into the ‘Nuclear Age’.…