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Funding for this Carnegie library was granted on July 13, 1912 in the form of $40,000. It stands at 205 South Main Street, and is claimed to be the first Carnegie library to serve an entire county. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The building was designed by Howard & Merriam using a Beaux-Arts style.
Paulding is a small northwestern Ohio county seat, located to the east of Fort Wayne.
Historic 1921 World War I Monument in front of the old Knoxville High School in Knox County, Tennessee. The monument contains John Paulding's cast bronze doughboy statue "Over the Top" (Model 2043-A). It was dedicated by U.S. Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing in 1922.
The World War I Monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1994 as a contributing resource to the Emory Place Historic District (NRIS No. 94001259).
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A frontal system is expected to push across the area by late Sunday into Monday. For now widespread showers are likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms. The main threats are strong gusty winds, brief heavy rain, and occasional lightning, though any increase in instability would greatly increase the chance for stronger storms. Please monitor updates as much uncertainty exists with the evolution of this system. www.weather.gov/atlanta
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Click here to support SAVE PAULDING COUNTY, GA – NO 139! by Susan Wilkins
On October 3rd, 2013, the residents of Paulding County, GA found out our local Airport Authority and Industrial Building Authority entered into "secret" contracts with Propeller Investments’ newly created subsidiary, Silver Comet Terminal Partners, LLC, to commercialize our small, county owned, g...
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Gentle, uninterrupted flow of water and the surrounding beauty of fall foliage.
Bond Falls is a waterfall on the middle branch of the Ontonagon River, a few miles east of Paulding in Haight Township in southern Ontonagon County, Michigan. The total drop of the falls is about 50 feet (15 m).
The original purpose of the structure and its role in agriculture are not known to me. The front of the building is oriented to the south.
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It's Tech Tuesday, Check Out the latest Tech Jobs in Paulding County - ga-paulding.countyjobs.careers/index.php?q=Technology .
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Commissioner Todd Pownall says he's representing Paulding County, but that's not what it looked like this week at EA Meeting. Don't forget he wrote a letter to Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta, thanking him for fighting the commercialization of Silver Comet Field!!! It looks like he supports Delta Air Lines more than he supports us, the citizens of Paulding County. .
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Winter Weather Preparedness- Day 3 As Winter Weather Preparedness Week continues, remember to winterize your vehicle. Here are some tips:
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Fessel Jewelers 116 N Williams St, Paulding, OH.
I'm not sure what the business was to the left of Fessel's.
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The Ottawa tribe of Native Americans were the prevalent occupants of the region before Europeans arrived in North America following the 1492 expedition of Christopher Columbus. By 1750, however, there were Miamis, Prankaahaws, Delawares, Shawnee, Kickapoos, Muscounteres, Huron, Weas, Wyandotts and Mohawks [3].
Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the Continental Congress opened what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin to settlement. However, the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution in 1783 allowed the British to remain in the Northwest Territory until matters were resolved with the Indians. General Washington sent General "Mad" Anthony Wayne to subdue the native population. He built a series of forts, including Fort Brown, located between Charloe and Melrose. In order to defend against Indian ambush, he cut a swath of woods a mile wide, known as the Wayne Trace. His campaign culminated in a decisive 1794 victory by the Legion of the United States against Indians led by Chief Little Turtle of the near Maumee, Ohio in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, and signing of the Treaty of Greenville in 1795.[4]
Paulding County was originally part of territory set aside for Ohio’s Indian people by the Treaty of Greenville. That did not last long. Paulding County was organized by the legislature on April 1, 1820 from lands that were formerly part of Williams County. At that point, it consisted of 12 perfectly square townships. In 1845, Defiance County was formed from lands that were part of Williams County, plus the northern half of Auglaize Township. It was at this time that four sections of Emerald Township were transferred to Auglaize Township.
Settlement of Paulding County was slow, due to the difficult living conditions. Farmers complained that they grew two crops a year - frogs and ice. Many residents suffered from the ague, a disease later determined to be malaria. The primary industries were based on the thick forests. Many timbers were floated up the Maumee River to be used as ship's masts. The trees were so big that one man lived in a hollow tree. There were also many who earned money through the winter by crafting barrel staves with an adze.
George Washington had promoted the building of canals to provide interior transportation for this fledgling nation. Once the Erie Canal was opened in 1825, entrepreneurs promoted other canals, including the Miami and Erie Canal and the Wabash and Erie Canal. The Miami and Erie ran from Lake Erie to the Little Miami River near Cincinnati, Ohio, through Paulding County, and the Wabash and Erie Canal went west into Indiana, meeting the Miami and Erie in Junction, a community in Auglaize township. The canal excitement was so great that people were leaving Fort Wayne, Indiana for Junction, feeling that it had a much brighter future. Canal workers choosing Paulding County as their tax home built the county's population to 25,000 people in 1835, a number it has never approached since.
The combined canal system was the largest canal system in the world - but was only profitable for a short period. The canal was useless in winter, and the banks were constantly caving in, requiring constant dredging to remain passable. To protect the banks, canal boats had to operate at extremely slow speed - and the canal system started being abandoned even before it was completely built. The coming of the railroad quickly supplanted the canals as the primary means of long-haul travel.
A relic of this era is the Furnace Farm near Cecil. Ore was brought in by canal, where it was turned into iron using the ample local fuel. One furnace remains, where it was allowed to cool without being emptied, there being no point in pouring iron that could not be shipped economically to market.
Built in the 1910s, the Paulding County Carnegie Library was the first Carnegie library to serve an entire county instead of a single city
PAULDING COUNTY AIRPORT, Dallas Ga. May 9, 2013 – Georgia Army National Guardsmen grew up in their communities and now they conduct mission specific training to be ready to help their fellow citizens or those in need around the world. Today Soldiers from the 560th Battle Field Surveillance Brigade jumped out of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter to maintain their currency and proficiency as Airborne Soldiers who may need to parachute in to accomplish their assigned mission.
Parachutes deploy as Soldiers from Georgia’s 560th Battle Field Surveillance Brigade (BFSB) jump out of a UH-60 Blackhawk for their first jump of the day.
(Georgia Army National Guard photo by Maj. Will Cox / Released)
This statue is located in the small, triangular Davidson Memorial Park near the intersection of Prairie and Villa streets in Elgin. The monument is a contributing object to the 1983 listing of the Elgin Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places.
For more information regarding this statue please follow this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paulding_(sculptor)
Elgin, Illinois is a small city located in northeastern Kane County, to the northwest of Chicago.
Fossiliferous chert nodule in carbonate in the Devonian of Ohio, USA.
The brownish mass in the photo is a chert nodule representing partially silicified carbonate rock. This is an out-of-place quarry block of either limestone or dolostone. Within the chert nodule are two silicified solitary rugose corals ("horn corals").
Classification: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Rugosa
Stratigraphy: loose quarry block of Dundee Limestone or Lucas Dolomite, Middle Devonian
Locality: Auglaize Quarry (= Shelly Company, Stoneco's Auglaize Facility), southeast of the town of Junction, northeastern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 27.83" North latitude, 84° 25' 19.75" West longitude)
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Dallas Christmas Parade The parade is about to begin in about an hour. The weather is great, come out and join us.
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This statue is located in the small, triangular Davidson Memorial Park near the intersection of Prairie and Villa streets in Elgin. The monument is a contributing object to the 1983 listing of the Elgin Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places.
For more information regarding this statue please follow this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paulding_(sculptor)
Elgin, Illinois is a small city located in northeastern Kane County, to the northwest of Chicago.
Bought at a flea market, years ago. They were stuck under the glass of a promotional thermometer from the Paulding Transfer And Coal Company, of Paulding, Ohio.
TOMORROW IS THE DAY! If there is one meeting all year that you attend regarding the airport and the future of Paulding County, tomorrow night’s meeting at Silver Comet Field is the one! The consulting company who conducted the Environmental Assessment (EA) is holding a public hearing beginning at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 1 to discuss the recently completed EA – which found no significant environmental impact that should prevent the initiation of commercial air service. This is your chance to be heard Paulding County! Anyone who wishes to speak will have 3 minutes to comment on the EA and the proposed commercial air service. Sign up to make a verbal comment when you arrive; it will be first come, first serve. You can also provide comments privately, either in writing or verbally. Please come out and show your support for the airport and for this wonderful County. If you cannot attend the meeting, comments regarding the EA can be made at www.pauldingairport.com until January 10. Your input is vital and with your help we can Let Paulding Fly! 6:00pm Silver Comet Field 730 Airport Parkway Dallas, GA 30157 .
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Award Winners The public safety float won the "Rotarian Award" at the Dallas Christmas Parade.
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Baggett Elementary DARE Essay Contest Winners Pictured left to right are Olivia Mays, Hannah Harris, Nahshon Hill, Taje Bailey, and Alexander Rogel. Behind them is DARE instructor Deputy Rodney Mitchell. These students were selected as the winnners of the DARE essay contest for Baggett Elementary. Congratulations to the Winners!
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Paulding Exempted Village Schools 1 - 2006 Blue Bird Vision - Retired; Cardinal Bus Sales - Lima, Ohio. One of many Blue Birds in the fleet.
Basidechenella lucasensis Stumm, 1965 - fossil trilobite from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
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This species is also known as Dechenella lucasensis.
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Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian. Trilobites had a calcitic exoskeleton and nonmineralizing parts underneath (legs, gills, gut, etc.). The calcite skeleton is most commonly preserved in the fossil record, although soft-part preservation is known in some trilobites (Ex: Burgess Shale and Hunsruck Slate). Trilobites had a head (cephalon), a body of many segments (thorax), and a tail (pygidium). Molts and carcasses usually fell apart quickly - most trilobite fossils are isolated parts of the head (cranidium and free cheeks), individual thoracic segments, or isolated pygidia. The name "trilobite" was introduced in 1771 by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and refers to the tripartite division of the trilobite body - it has a central axial lobe that runs longitudinally from the head to the tail, plus two side lobes (pleural lobes).
Seen here is a rare trilobite called Basidechenella lucasensis from the Middle Devonian-aged Silica Formation of northeastern Ohio. Silica Formation trilobites occur with other typical Middle Paleozoic shallow marine invertebrates: brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, and corals.
Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Trilobita, Polymerida, Proetidae
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian
Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)
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Fluorite from Ohio, USA. (Joseph Vasichko collection)
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The halides are the "salt minerals", and have one or more of the following anions: Cl-, F-, I-, Br-.
Fluorite is a calcium fluoride mineral (CaF2). The most diagnostic physical property of fluorite is its hardness (H≡4). Fluorite typically forms cubic crystals and, when broken, displays four cleavage planes (also quite diagnostic). When broken under controlled conditions, the broken pieces of fluorite form double pyramids. Fluorite is a good example of a mineral that can be any color. Common fluorite colors include clear, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and brown. The stereotypical color for fluorite is purple. Purple is the color fluorite "should be". A mineral collector doesn't have fluorite unless it's a purple fluorite (!).
Fluorite occurs in association with some active volcanoes. HF emitted from volcanoes can react with Ca-bearing rocks to form fluorite crystals. Many hydrothermal veins contain fluorite. Much fluorite also occurs in the southern Illinois area (Mississippi Valley-type deposits).
Geologic context: vug-filling fluorite crystals in carbonate rock (found in September 2016) of the Detroit River Group or Dundee Limestone (Lower to Middle Devonian)
Locality: Stoneco Incorporated's Auglaize Quarry, southwest of the town of Junction, northeastern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA
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Paulding Exempted Village Schools 23 - 1997 Blue Bird TC/2000 FE - Retired; Cardinal Bus Sales - Lima, Ohio
Paulding Exempted Village Schools 17 - 2012 Blue Bird All American FE; Cardinal Bus Sales - Lima, Ohio
Roy Klopfenstein (left) and Agriculture Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service (FFAS) Michael Scuse (right) look at Klopfenstein’s alfalfa field and how the drought has impacted his crop in Paulding County OH on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Agriculture Secretary Vilsack has instructed Agriculture subcabinet leaders to travel to affected drought areas to augment ongoing assistance from state-level U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) staff and provide guidance on USDA’s new, streamlined disaster process. The U.S. Drought Monitor currently reports that 61 percent of the continental United States is in a moderate to exceptional drought. USDA photo by Christina Reed.
Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides), with the new leaves (often called "fiddleheads") unfurling for the spring. Pickett's Mill State Historic Site, Paulding County, Georgia.
Snowy Owls are pretty uncommon in Ohio, but they say when the Snowy Owls have a good breeding year in the Arctic Circle, they have to spread further South in Winter to have enough hunting areas for all of them. I drove about 50 miles to get to where the owl was reported, and fortunately it didn't take long find this owl and another.one. This owl would fly to other, and then that one would immediately fly away. I liked the look of this owl sitting in the winter wheat, they are a large bird and they show up very well against the green wheat and dark soil.
Agriculture Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service (FFAS) Michael Scuse (right ) and Goyings farm owner Doug Goyings look over farm buildings damaged from a severe storm on June 29, 2012. Secretary Scuse toured the Goyings farm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012, in Paulding County, OH. USDA photo by Christina Reed.
The Ottawa tribe of Native Americans were the prevalent occupants of the region before Europeans arrived in North America following the 1492 expedition of Christopher Columbus. By 1750, however, there were Miamis, Prankaahaws, Delawares, Shawnee, Kickapoos, Muscounteres, Huron, Weas, Wyandotts and Mohawks [3].
Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the Continental Congress opened what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin to settlement. However, the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution in 1783 allowed the British to remain in the Northwest Territory until matters were resolved with the Indians. General Washington sent General "Mad" Anthony Wayne to subdue the native population. He built a series of forts, including Fort Brown, located between Charloe and Melrose. In order to defend against Indian ambush, he cut a swath of woods a mile wide, known as the Wayne Trace. His campaign culminated in a decisive 1794 victory by the Legion of the United States against Indians led by Chief Little Turtle of the near Maumee, Ohio in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, and signing of the Treaty of Greenville in 1795.[4]
Paulding County was originally part of territory set aside for Ohio’s Indian people by the Treaty of Greenville. That did not last long. Paulding County was organized by the legislature on April 1, 1820 from lands that were formerly part of Williams County. At that point, it consisted of 12 perfectly square townships. In 1845, Defiance County was formed from lands that were part of Williams County, plus the northern half of Auglaize Township. It was at this time that four sections of Emerald Township were transferred to Auglaize Township.
Settlement of Paulding County was slow, due to the difficult living conditions. Farmers complained that they grew two crops a year - frogs and ice. Many residents suffered from the ague, a disease later determined to be malaria. The primary industries were based on the thick forests. Many timbers were floated up the Maumee River to be used as ship's masts. The trees were so big that one man lived in a hollow tree. There were also many who earned money through the winter by crafting barrel staves with an adze.
George Washington had promoted the building of canals to provide interior transportation for this fledgling nation. Once the Erie Canal was opened in 1825, entrepreneurs promoted other canals, including the Miami and Erie Canal and the Wabash and Erie Canal. The Miami and Erie ran from Lake Erie to the Little Miami River near Cincinnati, Ohio, through Paulding County, and the Wabash and Erie Canal went west into Indiana, meeting the Miami and Erie in Junction, a community in Auglaize township. The canal excitement was so great that people were leaving Fort Wayne, Indiana for Junction, feeling that it had a much brighter future. Canal workers choosing Paulding County as their tax home built the county's population to 25,000 people in 1835, a number it has never approached since.
The combined canal system was the largest canal system in the world - but was only profitable for a short period. The canal was useless in winter, and the banks were constantly caving in, requiring constant dredging to remain passable. To protect the banks, canal boats had to operate at extremely slow speed - and the canal system started being abandoned even before it was completely built. The coming of the railroad quickly supplanted the canals as the primary means of long-haul travel.
A relic of this era is the Furnace Farm near Cecil. Ore was brought in by canal, where it was turned into iron using the ample local fuel. One furnace remains, where it was allowed to cool without being emptied, there being no point in pouring iron that could not be shipped economically to market.
Built in the 1910s, the Paulding County Carnegie Library was the first Carnegie library to serve an entire county instead of a single city
Fluorite from Ohio, USA. (Joseph Vasichko collection)
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The halides are the "salt minerals", and have one or more of the following anions: Cl-, F-, I-, Br-.
Fluorite is a calcium fluoride mineral (CaF2). The most diagnostic physical property of fluorite is its hardness (H≡4). Fluorite typically forms cubic crystals and, when broken, displays four cleavage planes (also quite diagnostic). When broken under controlled conditions, the broken pieces of fluorite form double pyramids. Fluorite is a good example of a mineral that can be any color. Common fluorite colors include clear, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and brown. The stereotypical color for fluorite is purple. Purple is the color fluorite "should be". A mineral collector doesn't have fluorite unless it's a purple fluorite (!).
Fluorite occurs in association with some active volcanoes. HF emitted from volcanoes can react with Ca-bearing rocks to form fluorite crystals. Many hydrothermal veins contain fluorite. Much fluorite also occurs in the southern Illinois area (Mississippi Valley-type deposits).
Geologic context: vug-filling fluorite crystals in carbonate rock (found in September 2016) of the Detroit River Group or Dundee Limestone (Lower to Middle Devonian)
Locality: Stoneco Incorporated's Auglaize Quarry, southwest of the town of Junction, northeastern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA
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Located on the former courthouse square in Paragould, this old beauty was erected in 1888 with the designs of architect J.E. Shane (he may have not been the original architect, but the architect of the renovation in 1918). It was replaced as the county's capitol in 1996-97 when the current Greene County Courthouse was constructed just to the west across the street from this one.
This Georgian Colonial structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The WWI Monument in the foreground was erected in 1920 using the work of John Paulding. It, too, was placed on the National Register in 1997.
We went to Taylor Farm park in paulding county and watched fireworks Ashley played with a sparkler while I took a few pics.
At the site of the Battle of New Hope Church in the War Between the States, Paulding County, Georgia.
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