Tag: history
Alliance groups receive awards for historic district walking tour
The Alliance Historical Society and Alliance Preservation Society recently received an outstanding achievement award for their collaborative project “East Main Street Historic District Walking Tour.”
From a lump of clay the potter made everything for pioneers
After the blacksmith, a potter was the next essential skilled tradesman in the burgeoning
towns of early Ohio Country in the 1800s.
Without a blacksmith, there wasn’t a town
Paul Locher explains that the single most important craftsman that was needed to get an 1800s frontier town going and make it thrive was a blacksmith.
Can you identify Item No. 1276?
Tim Miller discovered Item No. 1276 while he was metal detecting at an 1820s to 1830s homesite. Do you know what it is?
With trees cut down, firewood takes center stage
How did settlers chop fire wood and heat their homes in 1800s Ohio Country? Paul Locher offers insight in the latest installment of An American Tale.
Mystery item unearthed in soybean field
Item No. 1275 was buried in a bean field behind a house, which was the location of a one-room schoolhouse in the early 1900s. Do you know what it is?
Fighting back against deadly livestock predators
A huge hunt in Medina County in 1818 resulted in the harvest of 21 bears, 17 wolves, 300 deer and untold numbers of turkeys, foxes, raccoons and opossums.
Help us identify the Moore family’s mystery tool
Item No. 1274 comes to us from Moe Moore, of Greenwich, Ohio, and has been in the Moore family for close to 100 years.
Creating creature comforts for the creatures
Having reached adequate comfort for the pioneer family with the creation of the barnhouse, it was time to work on creature comforts for the livestock.
Help uncover the mystery of Item No. 1273
Item No. 1273 was made by the same company, Church Brothers, as previously submitted item, Item No. 1203, which was identified as a fence stretcher.
