MEDIA RELEASE__The Bluffton Ohio Historical Society will present “A Museum in the Making” at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center on Main Street, Bluffton on Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.
FROM BSC NEWSLETTER__On Thursday, April 23 at 2 p.m., Dan Groman from the Bluffton Ohio Historical Society, will host a meeting about Bluffton's "museum in the making."
Several exhibits are in the works: John Dillinger gang robbery in Bluffton, Dr. Boyd Travis model trains, interurban railways and the Dixie Highway through Bluffton.
FROM BSC NEWSLETTER___On Saturday, April 18, from 11 to 1, the Bluffton Senior Center will host Colonial Games and Pastimes as part of America 250 celebration in Bluffton. Eight different games will be played:
FROM FACEBOOK__Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio will be participating in the April 23 Bluffton Art Walk coordinated by the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce (Ohio).
Maple Crest will be hosting resident artist George Fischer, and Mennonite Memorial Home will be hosting resident artist Della Salter!
The first 50 guests at Maple Crest and Mennonite Memorial Home who bring a nonperishable food item will receive a free Dietsch's Ice Cream treat! All items collected will be donated to the Bluffton Food Pantry.
April 19 program will be open to the public and livestreamed
MEDIA RELEASE__Join The Swiss Community Historical Society for a sneak peek at the updated P.B. Amstutz book Historical Events of the Mennonite Settlement in Allen and Putnam Counties, Ohio, written in 1925.
Bluffton historian Fred Steiner will give an update on an expanded version, Our Swiss Story, to be published in late spring 2026.
Steiner has been researching the non-Mennonite families of The Settlement known as the Swiss Reformed. Several families will be featured, plus more stories from the period.
