History, Archives, and Stories from Paulding County, Ohio
A community-maintained collection of historical documents, maps, articles, and research links about Paulding County, Ohio — open for anyone to browse, and open for anyone to contribute to on GitHub.
An ongoing local-history feed from West Bend News, a community newspaper based in Antwerp, Ohio, covering Paulding, Antwerp, Oakwood, Payne, and Grover Hill directly — includes Melinda Krick's "Years Ago in Paulding County" column.
A large crowd, including many children, posed on and alongside a steam locomotive and passenger cars for an unidentified occasion.
Spencer Lighthill (b. 1836) recalls settling in Brown Township as a boy in the 1850s — earning his first half-dollar at age seven, tracking game for pelts to pay taxes, discovering a skeleton with a suspected bullet hole while helping cut Oakwood's first street, and Civil War service in the 38th and 100th O.V.I.
A railroad depot scene with figures standing near the tracks and depot building, credited to "Winters Bro's, Artists, Paulding, Ohio."
A colorized postcard-style image of the Perry Street truss bridge at night, shown beneath a full moon.
A bustling downtown Paulding street scene with early automobiles, pedestrians, and storefronts including a market.
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This archive grows through contributions. If you have a scanned document, map, article, or a link worth including, see the contributing guide for how to add it — no coding experience required.