I had intended to ease into the story of Richmond’s part in World War One. Today marks one hundred years since President Wilson had addressed Congress four days earlier, and…
Recently I was asked to scan an image that contained the stone archway that was located at the 24th Street entrance to Glen Miller Park, and I was reminded that…
The Reference Department at Morrisson-Reeves Library (MRL) recently had a request for information about Baxter Elementary School. The caller was particularly interested in pictures of the old Baxter building and…
Lodging and Accommodation This article concludes the series that remembers travel and transportation in the years following the founding of the state of Indiana. There were many inns and lodging…
David Hoover is credited with choosing the location of a new Quaker settlement that would one day become the city of Richmond. He was a surveyor by trade, and when…
The Treaty of Greenville in 1795 established a line across northern Ohio then from Fort Recovery southwest to the mouth of the Kentucky River. Surveyors at the time marked the…
The log cabin that is currently situated behind the Mansion House in Centerville started in the town of Salisbury well more than 200 years ago. Wayne County’s first seat of…
The oldest existing school in Wayne County can be seen today on the grounds of the Wayne County Historical Museum on North A Street, but it’s been situated in a…
Elkhorn Creek flows into the east fork of the Whitewater River about seven miles southwest of Richmond, a location within a few miles of Wayne County’s first settlement which was…
When they demolished this 1886 structure in 1970 they saved or reused many pieces in other places. We’ve highlighted several of them in the “Where is it?” feature in the…