Overview
Currently, the Puskarich Public Library System consists of three service outlets. The main library is located in Cadiz and branch locations are in Freeport and Scio.
On March 6, 1880, in Cadiz, Ohio a meeting was held to establish a public library; and in April, an upstairs room in A. J. McDonald’s new building was rented on North Main Street. Nancy Dewey donated $1000.00 and an additional $1500.00 raised by public subscription. The library was opened to subscribers for the sum of $100 per year in the Fall of 1880.
In 1895, the library was moved to the Harrison County Courthouse. A few years after in 1910, the membership fee was eliminated and control was given to the Board of Education. Since December 1935, it has been designated as a school district library with its own governing Board. Following a nearly half million dollar fundraising campaign, the Cadiz Public Library was renamed the Puskarich Public Library when the new main library building was erected at Cadiz in 1986.
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