The library is excited to provide perhaps one of the best digital resources we’ve ever offered to the community: ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers of Ohio Collection, which includes digital archives of the Chillicothe Gazette going back to 1892.

Every issue of each title in the collection includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, in crisp, clear, full-page, downloadble PDFs with searchable text – a huge upgrade from the laborious task of sifting through microfilm for obituaries and local history.

In addition to the Gazette, the Historical Newspapers of Ohio Collection also includes:

The Cincinnati Post (1881-2007)

The Coshocton Tribune (1909-Recent)

The Dayton Daily News (1898-Recent)

The Hamilton Journal-News (1891-Recent)

The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette (1915-Recent)

The Mansfield News Journal (1891-Recent)

The Marion Star (1877-Recent)

The Newark Advocate (1882-Recent)

The Port Clinton News Herald (1967-Recent)

The Springfield News-Sun (1900-Recent)

The Zanesville Times Recorder (1885-Recent)

All you need to access the Historical Newspapers of Ohio Collection is a free library card.  Register for one at CRCPL.org/librarycard, and then visit CRCPL.org/genealogy or CRCPL.org/elibrary (“History, Genealogy & Newspapers”) to get started.