Do you remember when the following businesses occupied 125 and 127 S. Main St. in Ada? Ada historian Leland Crouse has an extremely large compendium of when and where local businesses were in existence. Here's his record for these addresses, starting with before 1877.
The February 2, 2026, fire at 125 and 127 S. Main destroyed this building.
Q. Searching for information on a medicine bottle we found in our crawl space. Druggist Dr Printz in Ada, Ohio. Thinking 1940-1950 based off the bottle markings. Owens Illinois duraglas.
An 1898 textbook owned by W.J. Bowden has connected a Youngstown thrift store shopper with Ada Ohio Historical Society members on Facebook. Danielle Stoner reached out for information and with the help of Beth Gray learned that Stoner was an Ohio Northern University student who studied under Professor JB Gregg.
Bowden's notes in cursive include the price of the book (95 cents), biographical information about Galileo and Isaac Newton, and his "natural philopsophy" grades.
Found on Old Pictures of Forgotten Ohio on Facebook
This photograph shows a 1912 view of the Ohio Northern University campus from Main St. Four buildings dominate the scene: (from left) Dukes Building (1903-present) which was named for farmer Lewis Dukes, the Normal School Building (1871-1913), Hill Memorial (1879-present) and Brown Hall (1905-1976).
