Reminisce is a cooperative effort between The Lima News and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.
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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...
Reminisce: Albers Super Market
LIMA — On the northeast corner of Market and Metcalf streets, where the Maire family home had stood since late in the 19th century,...
Reminisce: Albertus R. Krebs
LIMA — Albertus R. Krebs knew something about weddings.By the time he died in July 1888, Krebs, who was married three times himself, had...
Reminisce: Lewis Brothers Lumber Co.
LIMA — On Aug. 23, 1931, with the country mired in the Great Depression, Lima’s city Manager Fred C. Becker issued a plea for...
Reminisce: Elsie Flammer
LIMA — After more than three decades operating a women’s ready-to-wear shop at 128 W. Market St., Elsie Flammer decided it was time to...
Reminisce: Paul C. Jacobs
LIMA — Paul C. Jacobs longed to be a playwright and found some success in the early 20th century writing adventure stories for magazines...
Reminisce: The Bayliff family
LIMA — Not long after declining health forced him to retire in the spring of 1941, Dr. John Bayliff estimated that, in the half...
Reminisce: The Stamets family
LIMA — As knots of people gathered along West Market Street to watch, the 1902 version of the future of inter-city transportation made its...
Reminisce: South Lima’s railroad history
LIMA — On a late spring day in 1918 the city started the process of razing and replacing the South Main Street bridge over...