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

Reminisce: ‘Divine healings’ led to angry mobs

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With a firm belief in divine healing and absolutely no faith in physicians, the Lima couple fervently prayed as their infant son slowly died.The...

Reminisce: Lima’s speed skating duo

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LIMA — The Michael brothers’ lives revolved around a sport, but it wasn’t football or basketball or even baseball, the national pastime and passion...

Reminisce: The Crall block

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LIMA — In January 1924, Lima native Edgar B. Cunningham took his memory for a stroll around the Public Square he had known as...

Reminisce: The Blizzard of 1918

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LIMA — The storm descended on Lima with stunning ferocity the evening of Jan. 11, 1918, whipping snow into drifts in front of shop...

Reminisce: Allen County sheriff prevents a lynching in 1916

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George McCready would later say he turned away as the mob slipped a noose around the neck of Allen County Sheriff Sherman E. Eley.“I...

Reminisce: Shopping season

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LIMA — You may be headed to the Lima Mall to do some Christmas shopping this time of year, and we raided The Lima...

Reminisce: Industrial hub on Greenlawn Avenue

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LIMA — The discovery of oil in Lima in 1885 helped fuel an industrial boom and served as a catalyst for the creation of...

Reminisce: A Kenton tragedy

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LIMA — The West was still wild, really wild, in 1873. Jesse James and the James-Younger gang were perfecting train robbery, the U.S. was...

Reminisce: Duff Truck Line

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LIMA — On warm days in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Vine Street Grounds was a favorite spot for the national...

Reminisce: Fairview Coal Co.

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LIMA — Two months after World War II formally ended on the decks of the USS Missouri, Lima residents lined up to get a...