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Paulding County History Museum Newsletter, March 2026

Era: Modern (2000–present)
Date: March 1, 2026
Source: Paulding County History Museum, editor Judy Wells
Rights & source note: Published by the museum; reproduced here with the organization's own permission via its members.
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Covers the museum’s winter kitchen remodel (largely completed with help from Vantage Vocational School students), the upcoming Ohio Local History Alliance Region 1 meeting hosted at the museum, the 2026 Spring Tea, and the 2025 Festival of Trees recap.

The standout feature has been transcribed as its own entry in this archive:

“Jesse B. Jackson: Paulding’s Consul Who Saved Thousands” — the story of a Paulding, Ohio native who, as U.S. Consul in Aleppo, Syria beginning in 1908, is credited with saving thousands of Armenian lives during the Armenian Genocide, and how a chance phone call reunited his family’s artifacts with the museum

See the full PDF for photos and a poem, “Paulding County,” reprinted from an undated Garden Spot of Ohio pamphlet.