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Habitat for Humanity applications open in Wood County
TOLEDO, Ohio — Housing prices are soaring, leaving many worried about not being able to afford to buy a home in their lifetime. This can create insecurities among first-time homebuyers who are looking to find a place to live for the rest of their lives. Factors like high rent...
History Spotlight: Feighner home
Members of the Feighner family pose in front of this stately Italianate brick farmhouse at 2401 Smith Road in 1905. The home looks much the same today, and it has been in the Henkel family for many years. It is a good example of the many historic farmhouses in the countryside around Fremont. Photo courtesy of Helen Henkel.
Historic Bowling Green homes sought for May walking tour
BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green Historic Preservation Commission is celebrating National Historic Preservation Month with a self-guided walking tour of historic homes and buildings. Property owners will need to provide basic details about their home or building. Those who sign up will receive a yard sign indicating History Lives Here, which will help bring awareness to local preservation and recognize properties included in the self-guided walking tour throughout May. Sign up a property online at buff.ly/41niMW8 or by calling the planning department at 419-354-6218 or emailing planning@bgohio.org by April 12. The commission has created a handout with resources to help research a historic property. It is located at www.bgohio.org/436/Historic-Preservation-Commission.
Fremont History Spotlight: Ball House, built in 1874
In this very early photograph, a horse-drawn stagecoach and its driver stand in front of the Ball House on the northwest corner of Front Street and Birchard Avenue around 1880. Built in 1874 by Oscar Ball, a relative of Martha Ball Washington, it became the Jackson Hotel about 1900. The northern half of the building still stands and now is the Strand. The building at the far right at Garrison Street also still stands, and in front of it on the southwest corner is an old millinery shop where the Tschumy Block would be built in 1889. Note that this is before the time of trolley tracks and overhead wires. (Submitted by Larry Michaels and Krista Michaels)
Why this entire apartment building was moved through downtown Findlay
FINDLAY, Ohio — For anyone who has had to experience moving, it can be a hassle. Now imagine moving an entire building across town. There was a little traffic congestion Tuesday morning in downtown Findlay, as what likely is the biggest wide load the city has ever seen made its slow crawl through the streets.
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