The first storm in a system that caused the Great Dayton Flood began on Good Friday, 1913, with the heavy rains starting on Easter Sunday, March 23.

NC Cemetery 0311 001Former slave was well-loved New Carlisle resident.

Stoney Ridge homeIn 1929 Joseph E.

James W. Norma J. Burns School Bus 1938I had the pleasure of talking with Jim Burns on April 5, 2008 about growing up in the area.

Grave 007Berry Tells the Tale of Albert Frantz and Bessie Little

A grave lies cold in a secluded cemetery off of Studebaker Road, bearing the earthly remains of Albert Frantz, a young man who was convicted of first-degree murder and sent off to be the fourth person executed in Ohio’s electric chair.

A Google alert recently notified our editor of an historic photograph depicting several men sitting around at a farm auction.

J & J Frostop was located at the northwest corner of Route 40 and 235.

70-year-old story comes full-circle in New Carlisle

You wouldn’t think that iconic Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart, a goose, a terrier, an English farm woman, and two New Carlisle men would have anything in common, but as it turns out, they do.

Wolfe Station

The photo the right is of the Wolfe filling station that was located at intersection of Main and Church Street at 331 S.

Prides CornerOn the Southwest corner of Route 40 and Tecumseh Road was a tourist camp that originally opened as Naus Station.

Teach Farm

On March 3, 1921, Edward Clayton Teach purchased a three-tract plot of land amounting to about 53 acres from Clark Overholser.