Text & Photo of Marker
www.pauldingcountylibrary.org/
librarymarker.htm

Paulding County Carnegie Library
http://www.pauldingcountylibrary.org

Ohio Historic Marker Info
http://www.ohio200.org/markers/

Ohio Bicentennial Celebration
http://www.ohio200.org

For further information contact:

Susan Hill, Library Director
419.399.2032
shill@pauldingcountylibrary.org

The library was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Click here for thumbnail photos of the event:
http://www.pauldingcountylibrary.org/markerdedicationphotos.htm

For the full-text of the marker, click on the following link:
http://www.pauldingcountylibrary.org/librarymarker.htm

To read text from the Carnegie Correspondences:
http://www.pauldingcountylibrary.org/carnegieletters.htm

Facts:

The steel magnate and noted philanthropist had funded city libraries but never a county library until 1912, when his foundation granted the Paulding Public Library Association $40,000.

The New York-based Carnegie Foundation had two requirements before granting the funds: that a site first be obtained and that the foundation have approval of the building plans. Carnegie has begun requesting the later after viewing one library that he felt wasted his money by having “too many pillars.”

Paulding resident Rebecca Latty donated four lots on Main Street for the site and the Columbus firm of Howard and Merriam, which designed the Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, drew up the building plans. The one-story structure is built of brick and Bedford, Ind., stone, and contains oak trim.

This marker was awarded in Round 14, November 2002, of the Longaberger Legacy Initiative.

Dedicated on Thursday, September 18, 2003.