Local newspapers on microfilm, census records, school yearbooks, city and county directories, and other historical documents are available at the library archives. All archival documents are for in-library use only and cannot be checked out.
MICROFILM AVAILABLE
Newspapers:
- Kenton Times
- Kenton Daily Democrat
- Kenton Graphic News
- Kenton Graphic News Republican
- Kenton News-Republican
- Kenton Weekly Republican
- Hardin County Republican
- The Kenton Daily News
- The Kenton Press
- Kenton miscellaneous (Hardin Intelligencer, Fair Daily Democrat and others)
- Forest News/Forest Review
- Forest Review/Forest Advertiser
MISCELLANEOUS
- Kenton Illustrated 1890 Historical and Biographical Collections of Hardin County 1898
- 1890 special - Schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows of Civil war: Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene and Hardin Counties, Ohio
- Hardin County Recorder and Deed records- December 1881 - March 1886
- The Greenlaw Index of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
CENSUS RECORDS
Hardin County - 1820 through 1930
We have many other Ohio counties census records. Please ask if you are looking for a particular county or year. We also have census records for Pennsylvania and Virginia.
OHIO COUNTY HISTORIES
SCHOOL YEARBOOKS
- Kenton City Schools
- Ohio Northern University
KENTON & HARDIN COUNTY DIRECTORIES
- Moore's Standard Directory of Kenton 1908-1909
- The Ideal Directory of the city of Kenton, Ohio 1912-1913
- The Farm Journal Directory of Hardin County 1916
- Kenton Ohio Directory 1930
- Kenton Con Curvey Directory 1954, 1959, & 1965
- Robinson's Hardin County & Kenton City Directory:
- 1957 1981
- 1963 1983
- 1966 1984-1985
- 1968 1986-1987
- 1971 1989
- 1974 1991
- 1975 1993
- 1977 1996
- 1979 1999
- Kenton Telephone
- 1972 1980
- 1973 1981
- 1975 1982
- 1976 1984
- 1977 1989
- 1978 1990
- 1979 2004
- Dickman Directory (Tri-County)
- 1996
- 1997
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2010
- 2014
- Polk City Directory
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2013