Old bricks from Bluffton's Main Street will be available as souvenir items during Bluffton's sesquicentennial celebration at the Boy Scout Indian Village's Trading Post.
The old Main Street was removed for the new Streetscape in 2009. Many of the bricks are embossed with "Convict Made 1927 Ohio State Brick Plant."
The bricks were laid on the street alongside the Western Ohio Railway electric interurban streetcar line, which ran on Main Street from 1906 to 1932.
Seven score and 10 years ago Allen County's Shannon, Ohio, became Bluffton, Ohio. Friday, June 24, the celebration we've waited 150 years for begins.
After over three years in the planning stage, Bev Amstutz, chair of the Bluffton cultural affairs committee, breathes a sigh of relief, seeing the events she spearheaded come to realization.
Mayor Fred Rodabaugh appointed Amstutz as chair of the sesquicentennial planning committee for good reason. Her father, the late Eugene Benroth, was known as "Mr. Bluffton" in his time.
On the eve of Bluffton's 150th anniversary celebration a relatively newcomer to town celebrates his first birthday today. J. Denny Beaver, the Bluffton University sports mascot, is one year old today (June 23, 2011).
From left: Austen "Feared Bear" Herron, Jack "Big Foot" Burrell, Misha "River Trout" Groman and Christian "Red Hawk" Groman.
For the past eight months, the Bluffton Boy Scouts have been actively preparing for the Sesquicentennial Indian Village and Trading Post at the Buckeye.
Under the direction of Assistant Scoutmaster and American Indian historian Gary "Book Reader" Wetherill, 20 scouts have been making authentic costumes, typical of the Indian tribes of this area of the late 1700's to early / mid-1800s.
Bluffton knows how to throw a party. From June 24 to July 2 it will be one very large party. The party starts with Bluffton's Amerifest 2011 on the Bluffton University football field.
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