History & Hauntings
in Northern Appalachia and the Western Reserve

Research and writing by Author/Historian Ashley Armstrong

Stories

Fairview Farm: A Glimpse Into My Family History
2023-03-15 16:30 I take a break from the heavy research to tell histories and tragedies of my West Virginia ancestors, focusing on our family farmhouse on Fairview Farm.
Carried Away in Big Run: A Tragedy in Mercer County
2022-10-10 13:41 In 1911, a young family leaves a visit with their ailing relative and departs by horse and buggy into a dark and stormy night, to a disastrous result.
“The Best Way Out Of My Heartaches”: A Double Suicide in Trumbull County
2022-02-05 13:36 Less than 24 hours after her lover's suicide in April of 1954, 33-year-old Maxine Hickox jumps into the Mahoning River and becomes lost in the churning waters.
Mollie and the Massacre: A Sad History of the Verbias Family
2021-03-27 12:29 Generations of a dysfunctional family meet tragedy after tragedy, beginning with the mysterious murder of a young girl named Mollie.
The Deadly Mahoning Valley Interurban Street Car
2021-02-06 10:26 The Mahoning Valley Railway Company ran interurbans between Youngstown, Girard, Niles, and Warren, but the convenience caused too many accidents and fatalities to count.
Thrown Down A Well: An Attempted Murder in Kingsville
2021-01-01 12:32 A husband throws his new bride down a well after marrying her for her property.
Anecdotes of Hotel Conneaut & Exposition Park: Part 6, 1940-Present
2020-11-09 12:59 In my 6th installment on Hotel Conneaut through the decades, I dig into the years between 1940 and the present. WWII began the steady decline of Hotel Conneaut until it made a comeback.
Anecdotes of Hotel Conneaut & Exposition Park: Part 5, 1930-1939
2020-11-07 18:50 In my fifth part of the ongoing series on Hotel Conneaut and Conneaut Lake Park, I explore the decade of the 30s. The stock market crash of December 1929 pitched the country forward into the Great Dep...

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