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MANSFIELD — The Bissman Building was built in 1886. It was located near the railroad tracks because they were in the business of receiving, warehousing, and distributing groceries. So unquestionably […]

BELLVILLE — There have been Universalists in Bellville since the 1940s, but they have been meeting in this amazing edifice since the1890s as All Souls Church. Today it is known […]

This is a really small story about something barely significant: a place you could drive through and not even notice. But the little story points to a much more significant […]

The era of streetcars and trolleys in America is intimately woven into the history of Mansfield, but more than that, the era of streetcars in Mansfield is inextricably stitched throughout […]

At its height of vitality in Mansfield the Westinghouse plant covered 42.7 acres between Third Street and Sixth Street. Today most of that square footage is merely naked concrete slab. […]

This historic photo from July of 1900 captures the scene on North Main Street when Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show came to town. Like any other circus extravaganza, the Wild […]

MANSFIELD — Going east out of downtown today, the primary thoroughfare of Park Avenue East splits into Route 42 and Route 430, creating a triangle of business properties. In the […]

People who grew up in Mansfield speak of the Madison Theater in such a way that you would think the place was still open for business. That is easy to […]

MANSFIELD — It was February or March sometime in the 1970s. We had just figured out how to get up on the roof of Malabar High School. It was one […]

When the photographer set up his tripod in the 1890s to capture this image of North Main Street, he was standing in the middle of a traffic lane and his […]