One hundred years ago, on February 14, 1922, Walter Murphy was born in Kentucky. It was there he would begin his illustrious and famous...

Mary Ann Dickerson passed away quietly at the home of her son at 228 South Kenton Street in Urbana in 1910. It is believed she had...

Born in Maryland around 1819, the story of Windsor Hawkins is still being pieced together. But one thing is certain, Windsor Hawkins left...

This grand home located at 126 East Reynolds Street in Urbana was built in 1907-08. This Free Classic Queen Anne styled residence is...

Robert Morton Duncan, a pioneering Ohio jurist who was the first African American to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court and who later...

When Bus Hill retired from the Urbana Police Force after 42 years of service, he did so as an icon of the city. Hill Street is named in...

Martha "Mattie" Cunningham was born in 1878 in Indiana. Her father had a successful clay tile business in northeastern part of that...

December 7, 1941, "Pearl Harbor Day". The date in which President Franklin Roosevelt said, "would live in infamy". Over 80 years ago,...