Historical Bluffton

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Here's a photo from "The Bluffton We Never Knew." It shows Main Street from the town hall clock tower. Visible are four church steeples, trolley rails on the center of Main Street, hitching posts for horses and awnings on store fronts. This photo was taken sometime between 1906 and 1915. The photo is among 170 photos in the Bluffton photo history book.

Copies are avialable for $19.95 plus tax at the following businesses:
• Bluffton Senior Citizens Center
• Twisted Whisk Cafe
• The Food Store
• Book ReViews
• Bluffton University bookstore

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This is one of over a dozen class photos in "The Bluffton We Never Knew," photo history book now available in several downtown Bluffton businesses.

It's a Bluffton elementary class picture from the 1899-1900 school year taken by Will Triplett. It's Bluffton B Primary No. 2. The teacher is Miss Benroth.

Although the students are not identified, it is very probable that these students could be in the graduating class of 1910.

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Here is the staff of the Bluffton College Witmarsum, the campus newspaper in the 1942-43 school year.

Standing from left, Evelyn Johnson, Hildred Eversole, Lysle Sommers, Herbert Fretz, Harold Thiessen, Robert Simcox, Norman Beidler, Marvin Wasser, Paul Sauder, Wilma Mumma, Ellen Clark.

Seated from left, Eleanor Keenney, Grace Adams, Lucia Grieser, Adelaide McGinnis, Lois Sommer, Wanda Suter, Grace Geissinger, Betty Steinman.

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Here's the earliest known photograph of Bluffton's downtown taken from the town hall clock tower.

Will Triplett took the photograph sometime before 1899. Here are some observations:

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Here's the Bluffton College Beavers men's basketball team from 1941-42. A. C. Burcky was the coach. Player names are under the photo.

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Here's a photo and identification of members of the Bluffton High School choir from the 1948-49 school year.,

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