Reminisce is a cooperative effort between The Lima News and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.
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Reminisce: Region’s places in National Register
The National Register of Historic Places is one of the most prestigious lists of historic sites in the United States. Twenty-six of these entries...
Reminisce: Lima’s brewing past
Across the country, as midnight neared on Friday, Jan. 16, 1920, Americans either gathered to give thanks in prayer for Prohibition, which went into...
Reminisce: Lima’s amusement parks
It had been a long time, The Lima News wrote in the long-ago summer of 1898, since the Fourth of July was celebrated as...
Reminisce: War of 1812 hero tied to Lima
The old general died in early May 1858. “Death found him in vigorous old age,” Lima’s Western Gazette wrote, “like an ancient oak still...
Reminisce: Allen County’s fight against polio
On Wednesday morning, April 27, 1955, Lima school children lined up to make history, by being among the first people in Allen County to...
Reminisce: Refinery pioneer’s time in Lima
The Standard Oil Company, the Allen County Democrat wrote, “are not of the class who allow a matter of a few thousand dollars to...
Reminisce: Lima-built locomotives pull ‘Daylight’ train
Nineteen thirty-six had been a very good year at the Lima Locomotive Works. In its review of the year past on New Year’s Day...
Reminisce: Marian Fletcher’s active life
With a population just over 51,000, Lima entered the 1960s as a two-newspaper town – The Lima News, which, since its purchase by California-based...
Reminisce: Wentz dedicated life to Lima
Twenty-five years after they left the halls of Lima Central High School to enter a world just emerging from World War II, volunteers from...
Reminisce: Farmer impacted Lima’s theater scene
January 1977 brought winter at its worst to northern Ohio. In Lima, stubbornly frigid temperatures — the average for the month was about 12...
