The Unknowns

here are several

known unknowns...

Donald Rumsfield - U. S. Secretary of Defense - Feb. 12, 2002 news briefing

Unknown Band

The image at the right was contributed by

Kim Johnson (January 2013).

Who are they? When and where was this photo taken?

NOTE: On April 23, 2013, Rick Martin shared the following: "I believe in the back row 3rd from left is John Darr, he was blind in one eye , Luther [McVicker] and Ben Bufler mentioned this.

I believe in back row, far right is Ben Bufler, I know he was also in the band. "Cheesy" [Brincefield] in the middle was crippled and my mother delivered newspapers for him."

Unknown Gathering

The image at the left was

contributed by Kim Johnson (January 2013).

Who are these people? Why, when, and where was this photo taken?

Webmaster note: It appears that this group may have been assembled at the northwest corner of the building that housed the Milford House.

Unknown "Old Timers"

Who were they? Who knows?

- Contributed by Kim Johnson (January 2013)

"As we know, there are KNOWN KNOWNS. These are the things we know we know. We also know there are KNOWN UNKNOWNS. That is to say, we know there are things we do not know. But, there are also UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS. The ones we don't know we don't know."

QUESTIONS

REGARDING DARRTOWN'S PAST

The following questions are known to be related to Darrtown's past. If you can provide any information about these questions or if you have other questions related to Darrtown, please contact the Darrtown.com webmaster (an email link is provided in the footer of this page).

Q1. Did the Milford Township high school, which was located in Darrtown, have official colors? If it did, what were the colors? From a few documents (mostly photographs, it appears the the official colors were blue and gold or blue and yellow. However, no definitive answer has surfaced.

Q2. Where was "Buhi's Grove" located? A 1917 news article in the Butler County Democrat reported "The annual Darrtown Sunday school picnic will be held in Buhi's grove on Saturday, September 1."

Q3. Did Darrtown High School have an official mascot or team name? If it did, what was it?

Q4. What caused a small section of shingles on the Darrtown Lutheran church roof to "bubble" or rise above adjacent shingles?

Q5. What was the name of the implement company that occupied the Darrtown High School building, after the school closed - and before the Fisherman Press moved in?

Q6. Who were the "Rebekahs" of Darrtown? A reference to this group appears in a narrative regarding Peter Vinson.

ANSWERS

THAT HAVE SURFACED SINCE THE QUESTIONS WERE FIRST POSED

A1: We have confirmed the school colors for Darrtown High School were blue and yellow.

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#1: Have you ever heard of RABBITSBURG - in the vicinity of Darrtown?

If you have, please contact the webmaster, because as of January 2021, no one associated with this website has solved the mystery of "Where in the world was Rabbitsburg located?"

News items from Rabbitsburg appear in the "Community News" section of several editions of newspapers from Hamilton, Ohio, during the 1920s and 1930s.

So far, no one has shared any information that would solve this "hare-raising" mystery.

To access background info about the Rabbitsburg story, click this "Welcome to" logo.

A2: Click the "extra info" icon to learn the location of Buhi's Grove.

Oh, if only.

If only someone had written the names and date and location, on the back of this photograph and the photographs above and the many, many unidentified photographs that exist elsewhere.

#2: Have you ever heard of HAPPY VALLEY?

No, this is not a reference to the TV series, or Penn State University, or that town in Oregon.

Information has surfaced (in February 2021) that strongly suggests that, in the 1920s and 30s, a Happy Valley community existed south of Darrtown, along St.Rt. 177.

To learn more about this previously untold story, click this "Happy Valley" logo.

"They are unknown unknows, Because, we did not know that we did not know of them."

ANSWERED