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  • About Us
    • Souvenirs
    • Cat's Meows
  • History
    • Historic Johnstown Ohio
  • Cemeteries
    • Area Cemeteries
    • Bigelow Cemetery
    • Green Hill Cemetery
  • Events
    • Johnstown Mastodon
  • People
    • Mary E. Babcock
    • Oliver Bigelow
    • Congressman William Ashbrook
    • Congressman John Ashbrook
    • Brigadier General Perry Miles >
      • Last Will & Current Status
      • Perry Miles Timeline
  • Train History
  • Schools
    • Cornell School
  • Timeline
  • Bigelow Park
  • Local History Digital Collection
  • Art Gallery & Artifacts

Local History Digital Collection - Johnstown, Ohio
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Our Local History Digital Collection strives to be a trusted resource that connects to the diverse stories and fabric of the past through preservation, education and engagement. The collection includes resources useful to a wide variety of library users, from genealogists and family historians, local students searching for class project resources to those patrons researching local cemeteries or bios of area veterans . Explore these resources below. 
  • Historic Johnstown Ohio - A pictorial history of Johnstown, Ohio presented in conjunction with the Mary Babcock Library Foundation and the Johnstown Historical Society. 
  • Johnstown Independent Newspaper Archives - This resource includes the Johnstown Independent newspapers from June 14, 1884, through December 2007, with the exception of 1899 which has no known copies.
  • Johnstown Historical Society - The Johnstown Historical Society supports, encourages, and provides historical education and preservation for the Johnstown community. 
  • Mary E. Babcock Collection - This resource is at the My History website at the Columbus Metropolitan Library.
  • ​Johnstown-Monroe Local School District Yearbooks - These images begin with the year 1926. 
  • ​​Johnstown-Monroe Local School District Classes - These images begin with the year 1879.
  • ​William A. Ashbrook Diaries - “A Line a Day for Forty Odd Years ”  The Congressman's four volume diaries can be found on the Family Search website. Membership is free.    Vol. 1          Vol. 2            Vol. 3            Vol. 4
  • Cornell School - This local one-room schoolhouse is located at 453 South Main Street. Field trips are offered for area students and interested historians. 
  • ​​Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
    Use to locate buildings and neighborhoods from 1867 to 1970 and study the growth of towns and cities
    Click here to access black & white maps from microfil
    Click here to access color maps from the Library of Congress
  • Licking County Genealogical Society - This organization is located at the Licking County Library in Newark, Ohio. They have resources pertaining to Johnstown history and genealogy. ​
  • Alexandria Local History Collection - This resource can be found at the My History website at the Columbus Metropolitan Library.
  • Veterans Project - The Licking County Library has a program called In the Company of Heroes, which seeks to gather, preserve and make accessible the experiences of all county veterans. 
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