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For over 70 years, volunteer librarians and archivists have recorded and collected historical and genealogical information for our library.
Included in our archives are materials on:
  • Shakers and Union Village (the largest collection in the world)
  • Family records (birth, marriage, death and cemetery records)
  • Building histories (private residence, public buildings, schools, businesses and local places of worship)
  • National Normal University
  • Court records,
  • Atlases (property lines and geographic changes through the eras)
  • Local newspapers (a complete collection of Lebanon's newspaper, the Western Star, is available on microfilm)
Prominent families include:
  • Beedle
  • ​Butterworth
  • Corwin
  • Drake
  • Dunlevy
  • McClain
  • Prabasco
Learn more about our library and how to go about using our research library or having research done for you. ​
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