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Issue 133
Contents Film Features Olmsted’s Young Scholars of Long Ago 1 Old Papers Tell of Baseball, Peltz and Simmerer 7 Township Has Grown Much in 70 Years 9 Does Old Tavern Still Exist? 10 Readers React to M...
Aug 21, 2024 Olmsted 200
Issue 134
Contents Film Shows How Students Were Bused Almost 90 Years Ago 1 Scores of People Attend Showings of 1936 Film 4 Olmsted’s Nature Rambler Was Born 13 Decades Ago 6 Still to Come 12 Issue 134 PDF...
Aug 21, 2024 Olmsted 200
Issue 135
Contents Film’s Outdoor Shots Give Insights into 1936’s Olmsted Falls 1 August Has Been a Time for Welcoming New Olmsted Schools 5 John Hall’s Barn Has Been Gone for a Decade Now 8 Shirley Hecker Pass...
Aug 21, 2024 Olmsted 200
Timetable for the War to End All Wars
Timetable for the War to End All Wars June 28, 1914 Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Heir Apparent to the Astro-Hungarian Throne and his wife, Duchess Sophie. The Archduke’s plan for a t...
Apr 4, 2024 Reports
The War to End All Wars
1914 June 28, Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand his wife, Duchess Sophie. Austria sends an ultimatum to Serbia. Serbia would meet most but not all of the demands. July 25 Austria declares ...
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Apr 4, 2024 Reports
Where In Olmsted Falls?
Miss Amelia Harding identifies LOCATIONS IN OLMSTED FALLS, OHIO SULPHER SPRINGS is located right behind the Harding home, Columbia Road - where Plum Creek turns east and flows to Rocky River. DEVIL’S ...
Apr 4, 2024 Reports
Who We Are
WHO WE ARE William Eichenberg Jr. My great aunt and great unde, Mr. and Mrs. (Elizabeth (Dtdsy) O’Connell) Mike Shehan, bought land in Olmsted Falls in the early 1900’s. Mike Shehan arrived from Irela...
Apr 4, 2024 Reports
This Years April Mention: Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, April Birthday Thomas Jefferson, born April 13,1743, has his picture on the U.S. $2 bill. This miraculous man began, at age 5, studying under his cousin’s tutor and, at age 9, studie...
Apr 4, 2024 Reports
Greyhound of the Seas
RMS LUSITANIA GREYHOUND OF THE SEAS Length: 787’ Beam : 87.8’ GRT: 32,000 (1 GRT=100 cubic feet - measure of enclosed space, not weight) LUSITANIA in New York before final voyage Boat deck to water: 6...
Apr 4, 2024 Reports
Robert Roy Hecker
ROBERT ROY HECKER Robert Roy Hecker was born in Olmsted Falls on July 29, 1925. He has lived in the area his entire life except for the time he served in the Navy during World War II and when he playe...
Apr 4, 2024 Reports
Westview Ohio
WESTVIEW, OHIO James Geer, the first recorded settler arrived in Columbia Township in 1814. The community of Westview started as a result of the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad going thro...
Apr 4, 2024 Reports
Northrup Headstone
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