Reminisce is a cooperative effort between The Lima News and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.
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Reminisce: Forgotten towns of Allen County
After nearly a half century, William Anderson closed the doors of his general store for the final time on May 5, 1954. The store,...
Reminisce: Historical marker showcases Wapakoneta Commercial District’s past, present
WAPAKONETA — The Wapakoneta Historic Commercial District has been included in the National Register of Historic Places for more than 30 years, a status...
Reminisce: Women share letters from home in the Civil War
April brings rain and renewal and the green of spring spreading up from the ground to the tops of the trees.April 1861 also brought...
Reminisce: Peirce focused on children’s welfare
“Social and business status of womenfolk have been altered decidedly in the last half century,” The Lima News opined in 1928.“Whereas in the eighteen...
Reminisce: Lima’s Shakespeare Study Club
Lelia Kelly was born in Muskingum County in 1861, married Army officer Frank M. Bell, graduated from Wooster College, taught in the Lima schools,...
Reminisce: Butler’s ‘rare mental attainments’
Luah Miller Butler “is a woman of rare mental attainments, possessing literary talent of a high order,” William Rusler wrote in his 1921 history...
Reminisce: Sarno’s brought decades of dancing
As 1945 drew to a close, Sarno’s Restaurant in Lima had a problem.“Somebody lost our Vitrolite!,” declared a Dec. 21 ad for the restaurant...
Reminisce: Leppla’s fighter pilot heroics
LIMA — In the fall of 1942, Lt. John Leppla, a Navy fighter pilot serving in a fighter squadron on the carrier USS Enterprise...
Reminisce: Bailey’s artifacts tie Lima, Nez Perce
One hundred twenty-one years after 2nd Lt. Harry Lee Bailey picked them up in a Nez Perce village in July 1877, and seven decades...
Reminisce: Monroe Mfg. Co.
The fire that destroyed the old Monroe Blind factory the evening of March 5, 1912, was spectacular.Fueled by the vacant wood-frame factory building and...
