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Category Archives: Local History
Can you identify Uncle Gary?
Tim De Frange kindly shared this vintage photo with us. Thanks, Tim! As you may remember from a previous post, Tim shares some common ancestors with us via the Eichler connection. If you don’t remember the post I wrote about the Eichler … Continue reading
Posted in DeFrange, Eichler, Knapp, Local History, Ohio Churches, Polls, Reunion
Tagged Kent, Ohio, St. Pats
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Towner’s Woods, a burial mound and a Hopewell princess
While surfing the net doing some genealogy research this morning, I ran across a Kent State University student’s thesis about the archaeological find in a Portage County Metropark. Chloe E. Bragg’s Towner Mound: Creating Content and Sparking Curiosity for the … Continue reading
Moving a town landmark
For those of you who remember when the old feed and grain store on Main Street was a train station, this little red building may stir a few memories… Built in 1881, it was most recently a feed and supply … Continue reading
Posted in Kent, Local History, Portage County, Preservation
Tagged Kent, Kent railroad depot, Ohio
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John Sebastian Trares
For those of you with a connection to John Sebastian TRARES, below is a photo of his home in Edwardsville, Ill., which, as you may remember from one of my earlier posts, is now a funeral home. This photo arrived … Continue reading
Anyone know the location of May/Kline homesteads?
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a May descendant who will be visiting northeast Ohio in October to do some family history research. Catherine Renschler, who is also the Executive Director of the Adams County Historical Society, located … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Kline/Cline/Klein, Local History, Maps, May
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The case of the missing tombstone: Part 2
Thanks to a fellow genealogist, I learned more about the circumstances surrounding the “missing tombstone” today. The plaque is located at the base of a memorial dedicated to Portage County’s Civil War veterans – not on the altar in the … Continue reading
The case of the missing tombstone…
I have visited the cemetery at St. Joseph Catholic Church many times, but while perusing one of my favorite genealogy sites, Find a Grave, I noticed something new. A plaque located on the altar of Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto … Continue reading
Posted in Andes, Knapp, Local History, Ohio Churches, Paulus, Portage County, St. Joseph Randolph, Trares, Wise
Tagged John Adam Knapp, Paulus, Trares, Wise
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John W. Palm (1881 – 1925): Part 2
I know I started this series of posts about the men shown in an old photograph of the St. Joseph Band some time ago. Sorry I had to put it down for awhile. But the KNAPP family has been pretty … Continue reading
How Powder Mill Road got its name
I always haunt the local history section of both the Kent and Ravenna libraries, looking for new books about Portage County history. Since I am not a Portage County native, much of what I learn is new information – to … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Local History, Portage County
Tagged NASA, Plum Brook, Powder Mill Road, Ravenna arsenal
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John W. Palm (1881 – 1925): Part 1
Remember when I started this series of blog posts I said that only two members of the St. Joseph band had no apparent connections to the KNAPP-KLINE clan? I lied. Not intentionally, of course. But while researching the coronet player … Continue reading
