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Reminisce is a cooperative effort between The Lima News and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.

Reminisce: Recalling 9/11 through front pages

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The nation was in need of information when terrorists attacked the country on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.The Lima News tried to do its part...

Reminisce: The Ashton family’s businesses

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In his later years, Francis Ashton Sr., “smooth-faced, quite deaf and distinctly English in his pronunciation,” was almost as much of a fixture on...

Reminisce: Ashton family comes to Lima

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In early February 1942, as the U.S. struggled to regain its footing in a world forever changed by the attack on Pearl Harbor, 84-year-old...

Reminisce: Forgotten towns of Allen County

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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’

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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

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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...