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When I moved to Ohio more than two decades ago, one of the first local history stories my late father-in-law told me was about America’s earliest nationally-covered murder trial. Did you know, he asked, that the murderer is buried right here in Pittsfield, the township immediately north of Wellington? He lent me a book to […]

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A few days ago, I was invited to visit Wellington’s First United Methodist Church to see a truly unique piece of history. My hosts were Tim and Leslie Simonson, whose beautifully restored home on South Main Street I wrote about all the way back in Wellington’s bicentennial year of 2018. Mr. Simonson repairs clocks in […]

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This spring, I chanced upon a listing on an online auction site for a nineteenth-century photograph taken in Wellington and still housed in its original wooden frame. It was an image I had not seen before and appeared to have close-range views of several downtown buildings, so I purchased it. Life then got in the […]

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