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Community History Archives

Community History Archive Partner

Coldwater Library

Celina, Ohio

Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Celina.

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8Titles

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1905 to 2022Dates represented

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190,810Archive pages

Historical pages reported for this collection.

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Discover the people, places, and stories of Celina, Ohio.

Discover another side of Celina, Ohio through newspapers preserved in the Coldwater Library's digital archive. Its eight titles include material from 1905 to 2022.

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  • Selected titles

    Explore titles such as “Celina Advocate” and “Mercer County Chronicle Journal”, shared by Coldwater Library.

  • Free and open access

    No subscription or payment required.

  • A closer look

    A familiar name or event takes on another dimension in the newspaper coverage of its time, alongside the stories that mattered to the readers of that issue.

The reporting of earlier years offers a way to explore how events were understood as they happened and how local experiences became part of the historical record. A family story, a classroom project or curiosity about a familiar place can lead to a closer look at the community and the lives of earlier generations. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.

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Titles in this collection

Browse eight titles and 190,810 digitized pages, with material from 1905 to 2022. Through a partnership with Advantage Archives, Coldwater Library shares these sources from the past. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.

Bring a person, place or date you recognize, and browse the titles below for a first clue in the story you want to follow.

Celina Advocate

1,282 pages from 1905 to 1907

Coldwater Chronicle

27,600 pages from 1907 to 1936

Coldwater High School Yearbooks

22,832 pages from 1938 to 2022

Daily Chronicle

48 pages in 1941

Mercer County Chronicle

135,224 pages from 1936 to 2011

Mercer County Chronicle And The Coldwater Chronicle

52 pages in 1936

Mercer County Chronicle Journal

1,380 pages from 1958 to 1959

St Henry Advocate

2,392 pages from 1907 to 1909

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About the Archive

About The Coldwater Library’s History Archives

Explore the Coldwater Public Library ’s digital archives, provided in partnership with Advantage Archives . These archives offer free access to historical newspapers and yearbooks, making it an invaluable resource for research, genealogy, and community engagement. The archive captures the local history of Coldwater, Ohio, and surrounding areas, offering detailed insights into the community's past.

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About the Library

About The Coldwater Public Library

The Coldwater Public Library , located in Coldwater, Ohio , serves the community by offering a wide range of resources and services. The library is dedicated to meeting the informational, educational, cultural, and recreational needs of its patrons. With a variety of materials available in multiple formats, the library supports patrons of all ages and reading levels, ensuring access to knowledge and entertainment for everyone.

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Mission Statement

It is the aim of the Coldwater Public Library to meet the informational, educational, cultural, and recreational needs of our patrons. The library will provide materials and informational sources in a variety of formats and reading levels in accordance with the goals of this library, the varied interests of our patrons, and budgetary constraints.

More ways to explore and share local history

Research Guidance

Follow a report into its setting

The history of Celina includes individual lives as well as events remembered by the wider community. In the digital archive shared by the Coldwater Library, begin with a name, place or date connected with the story you want to explore. When using historical newspapers, try alternate spellings and nearby dates, then read the surrounding page to place a local story in its time. Compare later reporting or another available title to explore different perspectives rather than treating one account as the whole story. Read the headline and neighboring articles as well as the matching lines. The surrounding page can show whether a report is local news, an editorial, or another kind of account; compare its details with later coverage where available.

Take a place or institution mentioned in a report as a new search lead. Check the issue date and read nearby articles to see how the setting is described. Preserve historical names and boundaries as written, and compare another dated reference before connecting the place to a present-day location.

Record which title, date, page, or item supports a useful lead. Mark unanswered questions before connecting it to a family or community story. A similar name can point you toward another source, but it is not proof of identity.

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Community Partnership

Keeping local history a community resource

This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Coldwater Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.

Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.

Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.

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Read All About It

Stories, research tips, and archive news

Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.

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March 18, 2025

It’s Your Community’s History, So Why Rent Something You Own?

We believe that history belongs to the communities where it was made - not locked behind paywalls or inaccessible due to budget restrictions. Subscription-based services and large content aggregators are generally more concerned with "content" and less concerned with the history that content contains. Their models typically involve a reoccurring charge for a plan that renews annually or licensing agreements with the library based on population served or circulation numbers. You are essentially Renting Access To YOUR History.
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