The Dr. Sloan Library in Zanesfield has continuously served the Zanesfield area for over one hundred ten years. The free-public library was built in 1914 using funds donated by Dr. Earl Sloan. Plans to build a library in Zanesfield started in 1912 when the Zanesfield Commercial Club was formed by Oswald “O.K.” Reames and Lee Pennock. At that time, the club discussed erecting a monument to honor Isaac Zane and Simon Kenton, and building a new library. Dr. Sloan, who was a good

In December 1930, 4-H boys and girls from Logan County traveled to New York City via the New York Central Railroad for the first annual Baby Beef Show. On December 8, 1930, members of the Logan Co. 4-H Steer Feeding Club, along with the calves they had been taking care of for a year, competed in an exhibition in Bellefontaine. The steers were first brought to the Sparks & Hamilton Auto Garage on S. Detroit St. and placed in temporary stalls made with lumber and lined with saw

Geneva College was located in Northwood near Belle Center from 1848 to 1879. In 1836, James Stewart Johnston, a shopkeeper in Northwood, initiated the idea to create a Christian liberal arts college in the community. The following year, Mr. Johnston’s brother, the Rev. John Black Johnston, pastor of the Miami Reformed Presbyterian Church, held a Latin class in his study for seven students. Over the next ten years, this class grew and moved to several larger buildings. Then in

Prior to 1936, only one in five rural households in Logan County had electric service. A few people who lived near towns were able to get...