The Belle Center Herald-Voice newspaper was established in 1904 when The Herald and The Voice newspapers combined. There were several...

The Latham Care Center was located at the current site of the Orr Mansion and Logan County Museum for over twenty years. In 1906, William...

Three generations of the Pratt family served as physicians in Logan County, starting with Dr. Edwin Pratt in 1850. Members of the Pratt...

The Harold Kerr American Legion Post #173 of Bellefontaine established a drum and bugle corps in 1930 with armed services veterans. The...

Jeneane DesCombes was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1935. When she was ten years old, she moved to Lakeview with her mother and two...

Maple syrup production is one of Logan County’s oldest industries. In the latter part of the 1800s, many Logan County farms had groves of...

The Howard Supply Co. was established in Urbana in 1938 by Bob Howard. The company sold automotive supplies and later added sporting...

The Indian Lake Boat Show has been an annual event for nearly 70 years. The boat show is usually held the first weekend in March and...

The medical building at 130 N. Detroit St. was built by Dr. Guy H. Swan in 1910. Since that date, the structure has been known as the...

Georgia Insley was born on October 25, 1917, to George and Margaret Insley. She graduated from Bellefontaine High School in 1935 and...

Daniel Evan “D.E.” Strayer was born in Allen County, Ohio in 1861 to William M. and Mary Jane Strayer. The Strayer family moved to...

Schuyler Zent owned a machine shop in Marion, Ohio in the late 1890s. He received a patent for gasoline engines in 1899 and 1901. Zent...

Norman Vincent Peale was born in 1898 in Bowersville, Ohio to Charles Clifford and Anna DeLaney Peale. His father was a physician and...

Before electric refrigeration, blocks of ice were used to keep food from spoiling. In the winter months ice harvesting from lakes and...

Larence Rausenberger and his twin sister, Leona, were born to Andrew and Mary Rausenberger on on a farm near DeGraff in 1887. From an...

On January 26, 1978, Logan County was hit with one of the biggest recorded blizzards. Governor James Rhodes declared a state of emergency...