The Murder of Actress Annie Von Behren  It’s Thanksgiving  Day, 1882, and for many of the residents in Cincinnati, there’s one thing that is going to make that day extra special – the famous Broadway actress Annie Von Behren is in town with her fiancé Frank I Frayne. The show had been a bit hit.   […]

For our “Only in Ohio” series, we select shorter topics we really want to cover, but that don’t really fit anywhere else.  That Legendary 1895 Car Crash According to several different sources (you’d be surprised how many) in 1895, there were only two cars anywhere in the state of Ohio, and one day they crashed

While I am doing research for this website, I frequently run into fun stories I would really like to tell, but … maybe there isn’t that much historical significance. Or, maybe it’s such a short story that it would make a very short article. Or, maybe there’s no place in this website for the story