All DCDL branches will be closed on Saturday, November 11, in honor of the service and sacrifice of U.S. military veterans. Please read on to learn more about those who have served, and about DCDL’s Delaware County Veterans History project.

Delaware County Veterans History

The Delaware County District Library has an ongoing project called Delaware County Veterans and Heroes, which seeks to gather, preserve and make accessible the experiences of all county Veterans. We are actively adding stories, records and photographs to our files. Veteran’s information and stories are accessible online. Please share your stories, documents, and photographs with us so we can remember all our local heroes.

Learn more about those who served

Your Library offers access to many services that connect you with our Veterans! Fold3 will help you discover and share stories about your heroes and the families that supported them. With DCDL’s access to Fold3, you can combine records found on the site with what you have in your own albums and shoeboxes to create an online memorial for someone who served. Ohio Memory is the collaborative statewide digital library program of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio. On this free website, you can explore digital content from more than 390 institutions representing all 88 of Ohio’s counties covering a wide range of topics.

For several years, the Delaware County District Library and several other community groups have cooperated with the Community Library in Sunbury to archive local historical records in a project called “Delaware County Memory.” These records have now been added to the national Digital Public Library of America. The Delaware County Memory collection includes over 300 items, including letters from and to local soldiers in World War I and the Civil War. To find these records, go to https://dp.la/ and then search “Delaware County Ohio History.”