March 20, 1827: Joseph Kerr’s reading room opposite the Paint Street marketplace closes.Īugust 1836: The Chillicothe Library Association is organized. Curtis, Librarian.”ġ825: Joseph Kerr opens a public reading room, charging $3 per year to join.įebruary 27, 1826: Benjamin Masters opens a reading room in his tavern on Paint St. October 30, 1814: a short announcement in The Weekly Recorder reads, “The Christian Library Society of Chillicothe have a small collection of very valuable works, which will be regularly enlarged as the funds of the Institution will admit–The plan of the Society and the terms of Loaning the books to annual subscribers or others may be known on application to Drayton M. Amaso Delano advertises a circulating library available in his drug and book store.
The collection is later incorporated into the city library’s collection.ġ811: Dr.
The Worthington Literary Society’s library is founded. The courthouse becomes the first capitol building.ġ809: the Academy, Chillicothe’s first school, opens. An eagle weathervane is installed atop the cupola.ġ803: Chillicothe becomes the first capital of Ohio.
December 18, 1800: William Speer places an ad in the Scioto Gazette requesting the return of private library materials.ġ801: the first Ross County Courthouse is completed.
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