This Veterans Day, we gratefully remember all of those who served, especially our own Delaware County Veterans! We’re honoring our Veterans all month long and invite you to celebrate our heroes with us. Read on to learn more!

Veterans Parade

This year, the Delaware Veterans Parade takes place on Sunday, November 1, with step-off from the Delaware County Fairgrounds at 3:00 p.m. Preceding the parade, a Veterans Social and Expo will take place in the Delaware County Fairgrounds Junior Fair Building, located at 236 Pennsylvania Avenue, Delaware. The social and expo will take place from 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Organizers will provide a light lunch, musical entertainment, and camaraderie, along with a meet and greet with Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Kenneth David. DCDL is proud to be a partner for both the Delaware Veterans Parade and Expo this year.

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. Veterans’ 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.”