Reminisce is a cooperative effort between The Lima News and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.
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Reminisce: Top trees in Lima’s history
The apple tree existed before Lima, standing on the Hog Creek Shawnee reservation just southwest of its principal village, known as Shawneetown.Planted, so the...
Reminisce: Watt family full of early settlers in Allen County
By 1880, many of those who had arrived in Allen County a half century earlier, when the forest was full of wolves, wildcats, and...
Reminisce: Pillars were founding family of Lima’s museum
Each spring the farmer’s plow turned over the warming western Ohio soil, turning up a banquet for the birds and, often, bits and pieces...
Reminisce: Former Ohio attorney general called Lima home
Isaiah Pillars was a teacher, lawyer and, in the years after the Civil War, a prosecuting attorney, state representative and Ohio attorney general. He...
Reminisce: Bluffton’s unique tradition of New Year’s songs
On a Friday afternoon in February 1853, David Rothen fell ill while teaching school in the Swiss Settlement area between Bluffton and Pandora, dismissed...
Reminisce: Sharing Christmas memories
It was almost Christmas, and it was snowing.Whether it was Christmas Eve or several days before I don’t recall, but my mom, either lacking...
Reminisce: Lima’s boat builder
On Feb. 4, 1930, barely three months after the stock market crash triggered the Great Depression, The Lima News in a front-page story announced...
Reminisce: Lima’s Cadillac connection since 1904
In a Saturday edition of the Lima Times-Democrat in 1904, at the bottom of a back page dominated by an ad for Newbro’s Herpicide...
Reminisce: When a tornado destroyed East
On July 20, 1950, the day after a tornado ripped through Lima, The Lima News remembered an earlier, memorable storm.“On a sultry Saturday afternoon,...
Reminisce: Lima’s connections to ZR-2 disaster in 1921
One lived in Lima with his family as a young man, while the other often spent boyhood summer vacations with cousins in the Spencerville...