(January 29, 1958, 63 years ago): Ground was broken for the new 11,000-square-foot Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company plant at 509 East…
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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’.…
By: James Pruitt THE VILLAGE REPORTER A group dedicated to promoting U.S. 6 stopped by the Edgerton Village Council and…
On Thursday evening, November 6, 2014, the Williams County Historical Society held their annual dinner at the fairground museum. Napoleon,…