Local History

Early photograph of the Archbold Community Library exterior

The library's local history and genealogy collection is housed in the McLaughlin Room, located just off the children's department. Most of the collection must be used in-house, with selected books available for check out. The room provides table space for materials, a microfilm scanner with printing and email capabilities, and a computer with Internet access to Ancestry.com as well as other genealogy sites. 

Included in the library's collection: 

  • August Ruihley: a Private History
  • Civil War Soldiers Discharge Abstracts, Fulton County
  • DAR Patriot Index
  • Fulton County Marriages, 1864-1925; June 10, 1927-July 21, 1944
  • Fulton County, Ohio: 1850-1976, A Collection of Historical & Family Sketches
  • History of Henry & Fulton Counties, 1888
  • History of Williams County, 1882
  • History of Fulton County, 1920
  • Our Town: History of Pettisville, Ohio
  • A Pictorial History of Swanton, Ohio 
  • Tombstone Inscriptions for Fulton County     
  • Fulton Co. Birth Records on CD: 1867-1908, 1920-1924, 1924-1951
  • Fulton Co. Death Records on CD: 1868-1908, 1920-1924, 1924-1951
  • Fulton Co. Marriages on CD: 1864-1999
  • Browse our local history collection.

Memoirs

School Yearbooks

  • Archbold: 1912, 1928, 1936, 1939, 1946-1970, 1972-1976, 1978, 1980-1985, 1991-1993, 1995-
  • Archbold Jr. High:  '69-'70, '72-'73, '73-'74, '75-'76, '76-'77, '78-'79, '79-'80, '81-'82
  • Ridgeville Corners: 1946, 1948-1969
  • Wauseon: 1923-1927, 1929-1931
  • Bound editions of the Archette, the newspaper of Archbold High School: 1941-1946, 1949-1958

Microfilm

A number of the early rolls of microfilm are in very poor condition which makes them difficult to read.

  • Archbold Herald - Nov. 4, 1893 - June 9, 1898
  • Archbold Advocate - Jan. 18, 1900 - December 5, 1907
  • Archbold Buckeye - 1905 -  

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