OGS Groundbreaking for New Library

29 May 2009

The Ohio Genealogical Society broke ground for its new library and headquarters in Bellville, Ohio, on Friday, May 29. For several years, OGS has been raising funds to build a library designed to facilitate genealogical research by its members and visitors, and to assure preservation of irreplaceable records of interest to genealogists.

The new library building will be built from the ground up to accomplish those purposes. The start of construction coincides with the society’s 50th anniversary. The building site is about 5 miles from the existing library and headquarters building at 713 South Main Street in Mansfield.

The 8-acre building site on the outskirts of Bellville was donated to OGS in 1997 by James and Marjorie Gorman. The property is located 2 miles north of Bellville on SR 97.

Library sign at the new site	The assembled crowd
Color Guard	Paul Morehouse, OGS President, leading the groundbreaking program
Mayor Darrell Banks of Bellville, Ohio	State Representative Jay Goyal reads proclamation
President Morehouse introduces Samuel Isaly and family	Paul Morehouse and Sam Isaly in groundbreaking
Isaly family breaking ground	Sam Isaly with commemorative shovel
Assembled OGS members and guests	Kelly Hettick, USDA Rural Development, right, after presenting project award to Tom Neel, OGS Library Director and Bob Cunning, Building Committee Chair
Cake for groundbreaking reception

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