RESEARCH
Bufler, Merle S. (1904-1973): See: People/Individuals/A-C
JANUARY 1, 1911: Darrtown population (unofficially) reported as 120.
JANUARY 7, 1888: Darrtown Stock Protection Company held its first meeting.
JANUARY 13, 1931: Fire destroyed the Popst saloon & threatened other buildings.
JANUARY 18, 1825: Darrtown Post Office opened.
January
"Hover here for a tip."
JANUARY 23, 1973: The Milford Township Fire Association announced plans to purchase a new tanker for Station 2 at Darrtown.
JANUARY 25, 1936: Temperance Day observed at Darrtown High School.
JANUARY 31, 1907: Darrtown Post Office closed.
Burns, Catherine (1850-1924): See: People/Individuals/A-C
…Abraham F. Darr. His appointment began January 18, 1825.
…Abraham F. Darr, the first and oldest, son of Conrad Darr, who founded “Darr’s Town." Abraham Darr opened the Hitching Post, in 1817, at the age of 24.
Lot No. 103, which is located in the southeast corner of the Mulberry and Cherry street intersection. Obediah Welliver purchased this property from Conrad Darr, in 1814.
…was viewed in the early 1950s, in the Dick and Hazel Bufler home on Walnut Street, immediately north of the Methodist church. More details appear on the Bufler Family page of this website.
…located at the store owned and operated by Frank S. Bufler. This occurred in April of 1895.
…Henry Branner, who set up shop in 1817.
"Related - by Marriage - to a Woman with Multiple Husbands"
THE RECORD HOLDER IS...
Edward Bacon of Darrtown,
whose sister-in-law, Ida Mae Knapp Spivey, in 1903, had SIX husbands - including two of Bacon's brothers-in-law, George Spivey and John Spivy.
Recent research found a January 1938 news article about the "farmers of Milford Tp." sponsoring a two-day "independent institute" at Darrtown's Lutheran Chuch.
To learn more about this event, visit Township Farmers Meet at Darrtown.
Click the following link to read about the connection between a Darrtown resident and a woman who had Six Living Husbands.
Click the following link to see a recently-found 1971 newspaper advertisement that refers to an "Auction Barn" in Darrtown.
If you have info about the auction barn, please use the following link to share your knowledge/memory of the business.
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The image below may remind you of the Covid pandemic of 2019...
Click the following link to see the image in its original form and the date that it was originally published.
To see the ORIGINAL NEWS ITEM (and more about the 1918 Pandemic), visit: "Darrtown Schools are Open Again."
How long were the Darrtown schools closed, in late 1918, due to "influenza conditions"?
See the story at: George Manrod appointed County Commissioner
In 1931, George Manrod of southwest Milford township was appointed to the board of Butler County Commissioners.
The above "look back in history" was prompted by the discovery of a 1919 Hamilton Journal News article that reported the following:
Harris, James K. (1912-1998): See: People/Individuals/H-L
Bunger, Richard L. (1938-2024): See: People/Individuals/A-C
