History Center on Main Street, Mansfield PA

Our new issue of Voices from the Archives will be available today by 11 AM. If you are a member and live locally, please stop in to pick up your copy. It saves us postage and also gives a minute to chat with you. Come in the side door by the parking lot. We will be here until 3 or 3:30. This is our Theatrical Issue with articles about our theaters and about Margaret Williamson (stage name Margaret Adams) and her musical career from Elmira Street to Broadway and Hollywood. If you are not a member and want to receive this magazine, which is published four to six times annually, check our website or email histcent83@gmail to become a member and supporter of our local museum.

These are the winners in our 1920 Mansfield High School Halloween event. "Votes for Women," Buster Brown and his dog, Jack Spratt and his wife, Two headed baby, Petey Dink, It Floats, Farmerette, Merry Milk Maids. Having fun a century ago (also in a pandemic)

A Century Ago- Exactly! Halloween 1920. Some students and faculty of Mansfield High School outside the school. This was recently donated by Sara Mullin, great niece of Bert Bates, our favorite Mansfield photographer.

It's Halloweeen. Deb and Scott Bastian stopped in to tell us a Halloween story from 1968. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsyImZpVGYY

Commentary on the Election of 1888 from the Mansfield Advertiser. P.S. Donations to the History Center count double from our Matching Grant.

Smokin' Spectacular at the History Center October 03

We at The History Center in Mansfield need a photo of William Ernest Garrison 1884-1934 for a project. If you have it, please scan at high resolution and send by email to [email protected] as a .jpg or .tif file. Thanks very much, Joyce

The next issue of our forty page journal, "Voices From the Archives," is back from the printers. Members who drop in for their copies save us $1.60 each, so please do if you can. Articles include Martha Ann Dartt, originally from Charleston Township, who became famous as Mrs. Maxwell the naturalist. There's also an article about the first automobile in town, the most beautiful bridge ever that only lasted three years and a thorough sorting out of all the retail businesses in Mainesburg and Mansfield that the Rose Brothers/double cousins were involved in. A lot of new research went into every one of these articles, so you'll learn something you did not know for sure. There are also great pictures. We are very pleased with this issue. If you are not a member and want an issue, it's easy to join.

Gene Dewey shares his ca 1957 film fishing with Uncle Myron Webster including Myron's elaborate camp stove installed n the trunk of his car. It looks like Myron was a pretty good camp cook. Also glimpses of Myron judging the contest at Roseville's Old Home Days and Gene and Priscilla Dewey on the Dewey farm in Sullivan Township. This is a treasure. Some of you might even see yourself in them. Check out the part about the Roseville Old Home Days. Tell me if you see yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCPfEI5SeME&feature=youtu.be

The Latest News on the Florida Hurricane (Sept. 1926) from Wilbur Johns Mansfield Advertiser, PA, 29 September 1926, p.1 Wilbur Johns Writes about Florida Storm Below we print a letter received by Mrs. Mary Johns from her son, Wilbur, at Miami Shores, where he, with his sister, Theresa, was during the hurricane in Florida:...Continue reading

Our most recent newsletter. Read about Harry Seth Peterson, the first black student of Mansfield State Normal School. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Mansfield-s-First-Black

1952 Mansfield High School Senior Play Bob Terry, Dick Swinsick, Connie Cleveland, Ann Troyer, Lavonne Frost, David Lapp, Donna Zenger, Leo Packard. Thanks to Lucile Tice Packard for bringing it in. Support our work with donations or memberships. We can't do what we do without money.

Our third issue of Voices From the Archives is back from the printer. We will get them ready for mailing to members today. If you are local PLEASE stop in t the museum (61 N Main) to pick yours up and save us $1.61 in postage per copy.

Autograph verses from Elizabeth Neal's 1939 Autograph book: Dear Elizabeth If I were a rabbit and had a tail of fluff I'd hop up on your dresser... and be your powder puff. A school Pal Margaret Cooke May 1, 1939 Senior High June 5, 1939 Dear Elizabeth I ate a hot dog sandwich I rolled my eyes above I ate a dozen more And died of puppy love. A pal, Bunny

May 1941 - Excitement at the Mansfield Diner.