Reminisce: Band stand’s prominence in downtown Lima
By Greg Hoersten - For The Lima News
A bandstand in the background can be seen in this 1888 photo from Harrison and Morton on High Street.
The Lima City Band can be seen in the northwest corner of Lima’s Public Square in 1887. Members included, from left, John Meyer, clarinet; John Durnbaugh, clarinet; George Durnbaugh, clarinet; H. L. Cooper, E flat cornet; Frank Hume, cornet; Frank Buchanan, cornet; Charles Coulter, cornet; Billy “Buck” Pangle, snare drum; Charles Lipfert, bass drum; William Merrideth, alto; Henry Schick, alto; Peter Schick, tenor; Henry Reel, tenor; Harry Weber, baritone; Frank Bennett, tuba; and H. A. Durnbaugh, tuba and band leader.
Reminisce: From Greely Chapel to Garfield Chapel to today
By Greg Hoersten - For The Lima News
The Garfield Chapel Church of Christ celebrated its 60th anniversary on Aug. 7, 1955. Pictured are many members of the Blank, Downhower, Roller and Shaw families. The church was built in the same location as the former Greely Chapel, the namesake for today’s Greely Chapel Road.
A map shows the Perry Township area as it was in 1880, including a marking for Greely Chapel.
Deep snow can be seen outside Garfield Chapel in 1950.
A group appears in a photograph outside Garfield Chapel in the 1940s.
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Out with 1920
By Greg Hoersten - For The Lima News
This photo of a temperance demonstration in downtown Lima in 1914 shows the gazebo that was once there. What started out as a gazebo for concerts on the square became the Ohio Electric’s rest station, which was condemned in 1920 and to be removed.
Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society
Lima’s Great White Way, the boulevard lighting project, was a heady topic from when the idea first came out. It was getting vehement by the close of 1920. People were concerned about safety.
Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society
Lima detective Willis Kipker, photographed in an unknown year. In a few years, he would be chief.