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The first Carnegie library to serve an entire county 79: Pickerington Pickerington: Jan 27, 1912: $10,000 15 W. Columbus St. Now houses township historical society 80: Pomeroy Pomeroy: Jan 27, 1912: $10,000 200 E. 2nd St. Designed by Columbus architects Richard Z. Dawson Jr. and Harry Clyde Holbrook. Open 1914–1989. Now law offices. 81 ...
Columbus City Hall (1872–1921), location of the city's first public library. Following the founding of Columbus in 1812, [4] the people of the city struggled to establish a public library. While several attempts were made with private funds, such as the 1835 Columbus Reading Room and Institute and the 1853 Columbus Athenium, these were all ...
Pickerington Ponds Metro Park is a metropolitan park in Pickerington and Columbus, Ohio, owned and operated by Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks. The park has 1,608 acres (651 ha) with several trails and five overlooks for bird and other wildlife watching. [ 1 ]
The Ohio Secretary of State certified Pickerington as a city in 1991 and it was designated as the "Violet Capital of Ohio" in 1996 by the Ohio Legislature. At 11.1 sq mi (29 km 2), Pickerington is the second-largest city in Fairfield County behind Lancaster. Pickerington is located just east of Columbus.
SearchOhio is a consortium of public libraries in the state of Ohio that provides borrowing access to more than 10 million library items, including books, movies and music, providing easy access to information and rapid delivery of library materials throughout the state. It was established in 2006.
A pay-what-you-can restaurant inside a Toledo, Ohio, library aims to combat hunger by offering meals in exchange for volunteer work, donations or fresh produce. Ohio library helps fight food ...
The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library (commonly referred to as the Thompson Library) is the main library at Ohio State University's Columbus campus. It is the university's largest library and houses its main stacks, special collections, rare books and manuscripts, and many departmental subject libraries.
The first public library in Columbus, the downtown reading room on the first floor of City Hall, opened on March 4, 1873, and contained 1,500 books. [3] These included 1,200 from the Columbus Athenaeum (1853-1872), [4] 358 from Columbus's high school library, and 33 from its horticultural society. [5]