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This is a placeholder for the joint DAR/WHS project to catalog Worthington’s Revolutionary War veterans and their gravesites.

By Kate Bavelock Preparing meals each night in a kitchen where others have cooked for over 200 years, I sometimes wonder about their lives, and their dinners. In the Worthington Historical Society collection is the Worthington Cook Book, published by the Women’s Benevolent Society around 1911. (To download the entire book in a keyword-searchable PDF,…

by Evan Spring From the late 1940s into the 1980s, drivers passing through South Worthington on Rte. 112 would see a small, eccentric store on the west side of the road. Depending on the season, you might stop and pick up plants, flowers, vegetables, berries, apples, cider, maple syrup, honey, or perhaps a soda, candy…

by Diane Brenner and Evan Spring The Worthington Historical Society was formed in 1933, but for 62 years it had no real headquarters for storing historical artifacts or hosting exhibits and events. Meetings took place at the First Congregational Church, the schoolhouse at Lyceum Hall (now Hillside Electronics, at 17 Buffington Hill Road), the Worthington…

by Pat Kennedy and Diane Brenner In 2014 several longtime residents of Center Cemetery on Sam Hill Road started a local trend by emerging from their graves to convene with the living. Other ghosts of Center Cemetery were envious, and six of them emerged five years later – on the evening of Saturday, September 7,…

Note: On July 30, 2021, at the age of 92, Bradford Porter Fisk passed away surrounded by his family in the home he built 69 years before. With his wife, Judy, Brad Fisk owned and ran the Corners Grocery for 25 years. He also served as president of the Worthington Elementary School PTO, president of the…

by Evan Spring Parish Road is a remote, gravel byway in West Worthington, but it wasn’t always so quiet and peaceful. From the 1950s to the early 1970s, Parish Road was the address of Frankie’s Place, a lively, after-work bar and hangout run by Frank Brooks, who lived next door with his family. On August…

Note: This transcript is from a series of interviews conducted by Harold Anderson of Valley Eye Radio during Worthington’s 250th anniversary celebrations, which took place from June 29 to July 3, 2018. Valley Eye Radio, based in the Pioneer Valley, provides local news, interviews and other content to those with vision loss or other disabilities.…

by Evan Spring This is the fourth and final online exhibit of vintage postcards from the WHS collection. Previous installments were Postcards from the Corners, Postcards from Worthington Center, and Postcards from South Worthington. These exhibits will be continually updated as new cards come to light. The WHS archive holds dozens of postcards of bygone Worthington, mostly dating…

Note: This transcript is from a series of interviews conducted by Harold Anderson of Valley Eye Radio during Worthington’s 250th anniversary celebrations, which took place from June 29 to July 3, 2018. Valley Eye Radio, based in the Pioneer Valley, provides local news, interviews and other content to those with vision loss or other disabilities.…