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Crowd Gathered on a Steam Locomotive
A large crowd, including many children, posed on and alongside a steam locomotive and passenger cars for an unidentified occasion.
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Scanned records, deeds, meeting minutes, and other primary-source documents.
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Railroad Depot Scene, Paulding
A railroad depot scene with figures standing near the tracks and depot building, credited to "Winters Bro's, Artists, Paulding, Ohio."
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Perry Street Bridge Postcard
A colorized postcard-style image of the Perry Street truss bridge at night, shown beneath a full moon.
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Downtown Street Scene, Paulding
A bustling downtown Paulding street scene with early automobiles, pedestrians, and storefronts including a market.
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Paulding County Courthouse, Early 1900s
An early photograph of the Paulding County Courthouse, hand-labeled "Court House Paulding Co.," showing the courthouse square bandstand and period automobiles and carriages.
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Paulding County Courthouse Postcard, c. 1940s
A postcard view of the Paulding County Courthouse, labeled "Paulding County Court House, Paulding, Ohio," showing period automobiles and a traffic light at the square.
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Paulding County Courthouse, Front View
A straight-on front view of the Paulding County Courthouse with a small group of men standing at the entrance.
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Paulding County Ohio (Howe Excerpt)
A locally-produced booklet reprinting the Paulding County chapter of Henry Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio (1907 Centennial Edition, beginning around page 374), plus material from other sources.
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Index to Wills, Paulding County, Ohio, Volume 1 (1852-1873)
An alphabetical name index to Paulding County will records from 1852-1873, microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1973.
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Paulding County: An Early History (Unattributed Typescript)
An undated, unsigned typewritten county history found in a library history file — covers pre-history and Indian settlement, early township settlement, the county seat's moves from New Rochester to Charloe to Paulding, courthouse construction, the 1887 Reservoir War ('Camp Dynamite'), the Civil War, and a full lineage of the county's newspapers.
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Ohio Ghost Towns, No. 19: Paulding County
A full scan documenting Paulding County's ghost towns and vanished settlements, including plat maps from an 1917 Atlas of Paulding County by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. and other period maps — useful for tracing communities that didn't survive into the present.
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Naturalization Record Index #1, Paulding County, Ohio
An alphabetical index to Paulding County Probate Court naturalization case records, copied in 1987 by Barbara J. Rohrs.
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Musical Band, Paulding
A studio-style group photograph of a brass and drum band posed outside a brick storefront, instruments in hand; a young girl holding a doll sits among the musicians.
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Record of Ministers Licenses, Volume 1 — Front Index (1874-1957)
A front-alphabet name index (A-L) to Paulding County Probate Court ministers' license records, spanning January 1874 to November 1957.
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Record of Ministers Licenses, Volume 1 — Back Index (1873-1951)
A back-alphabet name index to Paulding County Probate Court ministers' license records, spanning November 1873 to March 1951.
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Medical Certificate Records, Volume 1 (1865-)
An index to Paulding County Probate Court medical certificate records — physicians' diploma and examination certificates (1865-1948), and midwives' certificates (1938-1945).
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Funerals Held by J.A. Sheets of Latty, Ohio (1896-1897)
A listing of funerals conducted by undertaker J.A. Sheets of Latty, Ohio, from April 1896 through August 1897, giving the deceased's name, age, and date of death.
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History of the Grover Hill Zion Methodist Church
A short excerpt (a single chapter) from a Grover Hill local history book, tracing the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church from a pre-Civil War circuit-rider class through its 1913 cornerstone and 1913 dedication.
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First Settlers of Paulding County
A township-by-township name list of Paulding County's first settlers, from a Paulding County Fair Centennial booklet (1872-1972).
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Farm Scene, Photo by Dean Lighthill
A farm scene showing a family group at a barn door alongside horses and a wagon or sledge, credited to photographer Dean Lighthill (spelling approximate).
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Family Group Outside a Log House
An unidentified family group photographed outside a log or wood-frame house. No caption or names on the print.
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Crowd at the Courthouse Square
A large crowd gathered at the Paulding County Courthouse square for an unidentified civic event, with an "Up To Date Shoes" sign visible among the vendors.
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The New Busby Block, Antwerp
A postcard of the newly-built Busby Block commercial building in Antwerp, Ohio, with storefronts and awnings, and a group of people gathered on the sidewalk.
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Band Stand, Oakwood
A postcard street view of Oakwood, Ohio, captioned "Band Stand, Oakwood, O.," showing storefronts, a porch, and American flags on display.
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Crowd at the Antwerp Depot
A crowd gathered at the Antwerp railroad depot, captioned "Antwerp, O." on the print.
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Historical Markers of Paulding County (HMdb.org Index)
A full index of 54 historical markers and monuments in Paulding County cataloged by the Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org), organized by town, with erection years, sponsoring organizations, and direct links to each marker's full text and photos.
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Paulding County History Museum Newsletter, July 2026
Newsletter covering the completed kitchen remodel and its dedication to Les and Sandy Weidenhamer, the annual Quilt Show, a new parade float, the 25th annual ATHS Vintage Truck Show, and a tribute to longtime volunteer Elizabeth Miller.
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Paulding County History Museum Newsletter, March 2026
Newsletter covering the museum's kitchen remodel, an upcoming Ohio Local History Alliance Region 1 meeting, the 2025 Festival of Trees results, and the remarkable story of Jesse B. Jackson, a Paulding native who as U.S. Consul in Aleppo helped save thousands of Armenian lives during WWI.
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Paulding County History Museum Newsletter, November 2025
Newsletter detailing the 2025 Festival of Trees ('Sparkle & Shine') schedule, an upcoming Ohio Local History Alliance regional meeting hosted by the museum, a visit from a descendant of museum founder Dr. George Phillips, and the 2025 Truck Show results.
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Paulding County History Museum Newsletter, July 2025
Newsletter covering a new Antique Farm Equipment Show fundraiser replacing the annual Chicken BBQ, a change in museum leadership, the Celebration of Arts and Artists show, the Quilt Show and Spring Tea, and a Young Woodworkers' showcase.
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Paulding County History Museum Newsletter, January-February-March 2025
Quarterly newsletter covering the Festival of Trees results, the Crane Township bicentennial flag and a nationally ranked bur oak tree, plus short historical reminiscences reprinted from 1888 and 1919 newspapers.
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Paulding County History Museum Newsletter, October-November-December 2024
Quarterly newsletter announcing the historical society's rebranding to Paulding County History Museum, coverage of the Festival of Trees, a Canal Society of Indiana tour, and a reprint of an 1886 newspaper account of the village of Cecil.
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John Paulding Historical Society Newsletter, April-May-June 2024
Quarterly newsletter covering the Spring Tea and vintage clothing exhibit, the Arts & Artists show, the 1984 museum's 40th anniversary, and two substantial historical reprints: an 1922 newspaper account of the county's canal towns and a 1970 history of Crane Township.
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History of Paulding County Sheriff's Office
An institutional history of the Paulding County Sheriff's Office, established 1837, including the office's legal duties, jail construction history, a complete list of sheriffs from 1837 to 1992, and several notable episodes — a Civil War sheriff killed in action, a contested 1899 election, and the 1894 Charles Hart execution record.
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Visions of Paulding County, Volume 1 (2000)
A 22-page compilation of historical feature articles and vintage photographs reprinted from the Paulding County Progress newspaper, published January 2000 as the first in a planned series.
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Paulding County Newspaper Reminiscences II
Three short nostalgic newspaper pieces: an undated ad-essay by hardware store owner John P. Crain recalling how much Paulding had changed in his lifetime, and Norm Rulman's 1998 'Remember When' column on early-1900s small-town life.
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Paulding County Pedigree: Black Salts
The story of the black salts (potash) industry, a pioneer sideline that turned wood ash from land-clearing into a saleable commodity, plus a centennial poem about the founding of Payne.
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In the 'Clink': The Former Latty Jail
A look at the still-intact 1880s Latty village jail, with anecdotes of turn-of-the-century small-town law enforcement and fines for offenses like public intoxication and profane language.
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Hudson House Lives Again
The 1832 Hudson House near Charloe, built by early settler Isaac Carey for his brother-in-law John Hudson, is one of the county's oldest standing buildings and a Johnny Appleseed waypoint.
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Clark Cemetery Holds Many Secrets
An account of Clark Cemetery near Antwerp, the burial ground of Canadian and French laborers who felled the county's giant white oaks in the mid-1800s and died in an ague/fever epidemic in their work camp.
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Buchman Traces County Indians
A report on a talk by Defiance College history professor Randy Buchman tracing the successive Indigenous peoples of Paulding County from the earliest post-glacial hunters through the Delaware, Ottawa, Miami, and Shawnee, and their displacement through the early 1830s.
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A History of Paulding County's County Seats and Courthouses (Courthouse Centennial, 1986)
Melinda Huseby Krick's centennial history of Paulding County's three county seats (New Rochester, Charloe, Paulding) and their courthouses, published for the June 20-21, 1986 Courthouse Centennial celebration.
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Tile Mills: Another Page of County History
The story of Paulding County's drainage tile industry — elevation surveys, the county's 18 tile mills, and the two brick yards that supplied most of the brick buildings around the Paulding square.
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Paulding County's Past (Don H. Price)
A 15-part newspaper column series by local historian Don H. Price, published in the Paulding Progress's 1976 Bicentennial Section and early 1977, covering turn-of-the-century farm life, industry, and small-town customs across the county.
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Junction: The Canals Giveth and the Canals Taketh
A history of the village of Junction, which briefly aspired to become a great city at the meeting point of the Wabash & Erie and Miami & Erie canals, and declined as the canals were abandoned.
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Charloe: "A Village by a Stream" — A Pictorial History
A pictorial history of Charloe, Paulding County's second county seat (1841-1850), 'in memory of the last Indian chief in northwestern Ohio' — Charloe Peter. Also includes the program from a May 27, 1962 historical marker dedication ceremony.
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A History of Crane Township
A history of Crane Township and the village of Cecil, covering the canals, railroads, the Paulding Iron Company furnace, telephone companies, and local businesses, written for the county's 1970 Sesquicentennial.
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Story of the Woods: Lewis Beck, Blue Creek Pioneer
A 1926 profile of Lewis Beck, a Blue Creek Township pioneer who built his log cabin in 1874 at age 27 and was still living in it at 78, recorded by an unnamed hardware store owner and later donated to Bowling Green State University's archives.
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Canal Towns Were Numerous (1922), Part Three
A 1922 newspaper account of the towns along the Wabash & Erie and Miami & Erie canals in Paulding County, the county's iron furnaces, and the 1887 'Reservoir War.' Part three of a series; parts one and two are not yet in this archive.
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East Jackson Street Bridge, 1921
A photograph of the East Jackson Street truss bridge in Paulding, captioned "E. Jackson St. Bridge, Paulding O. 10-30-21," with three people standing on the bridge deck.
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School Class Photo, 1919
A group photograph of schoolchildren posed outside a frame schoolhouse, with a chalkboard held by one student bearing a partially legible inscription including "1919" and a section/district number.
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Paulding County Carnegie Library: A History of the Library, Established 1916
A history of the Paulding County Carnegie Library, from Andrew Carnegie's initial refusal and eventual $40,000 grant, through construction (1914-1916) and opening, to its later expansions.
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Sugar Factory, First Night Run, 1910
A photograph of the Paulding sugar factory captioned "Moon-light View, Sugar Factory, Paulding, O., First Night Run, 10-18-10" — October 18, 1910.
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Della: Correspondence 1906-1907
Letters concerning an unwanted pregnancy and abortion in the Paulding, Ohio area, 1906-1907. Identifying names have been edited out by the original compiler.
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Horse and Carriage, November 1905
A photograph of a man in a horse-drawn carriage in front of a frame house, with a faint handwritten caption possibly reading a location near Cecil, Ohio.
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Paulding County Canals (from the 1892 Historical Atlas)
An account of the Wabash & Erie and Miami canals' survey and construction, excerpted from O. Morrow and F. W. Bashore's 1892 Historical Atlas of Paulding County, which itself quotes an 1881 county history. Closely parallels this archive's 1882 Historical Hand-Atlas transcription, but adds detail on the canal packet boat and mail lines.
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Paulding County Newspaper Reminiscences (1888, 1919)
Two short historical newspaper excerpts: an 1888 tribute to the county's early women settlers, and a 1919 'Do You Remember' column recalling the county's early infrastructure and county seats.
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A Visit to Cecil in 1886
A newspaper account of the village of Cecil in 1886, describing its stave factory, stores, churches, hotel, school, and businesses, twenty years after the surrounding forest was cleared.
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History of Paulding County, Ohio (Historical Hand-Atlas, 1882)
Prof. Everett A. Budd's county history essay from the 1882 Historical Hand-Atlas, covering county statistics, geography, formation and county seats, early settlers, soil and timber, newspaper history, manufacturing industries, county officers, streams, Civil War military service, and the canals and railroads that shaped the county's development.
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Delinquent Tax Sale List, Paulding Independent (1863)
A list of delinquent lands, lots, and taxes owed across Paulding County towns (Andrews, Newberg, Melrose, Junction, Paulding, and others), published in the Paulding Independent's January 1, 1863 delinquent tax sale notice.