This is the third installment of an ongoing research series wherein Sarah Marshall, Adult Services Associate at Defiance Public Library, investigates this history of Defiance County’s only historic Black cemetery, what’s become of it, and where we might go from here.
“Tails & Tales” Summer Reading Challenge begins June 1 at Defiance Public Library System Summer library programs for all ages enhance lifelong learning and provide meaningful, enjoyable experiences available to everyone in the community. This year, Defiance Public Library System is excited to host the Tails & Tales Summer Reading …
The Summer Reading Challenge is just around the corner! Keep Reading »
“Are you at the library now? I’m in town and can stop in. I’d like to see that picture of the field…” After posting part one of the Worthington Cemetery Project, we received word of the name of a farmer who used to farm the land where the cemetery is …
Digging into the past is never an easy task. While researching Riverside Cemetery in Defiance for our annual walking history tour, I came across a unique but mostly forgotten cemetery in rural Defiance County. A local historian mentioned there was a “colored” cemetery located in Highland Township, near Ayersville. The …
Do chilly days and extra time spent at home have you looking for a worthwhile way to spend some time this winter? Youth in grades 6-12 are invited to participate in Defiance Public Library System’s Teen Winter Craze reading challenge, taking place February 1-28. This is an online challenge. It takes …
Winter is, of course, for reading! For the fourth year in a row, Beanstack presents the Annual Winter Reading Challenge. Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us program will sponsor the challenge, which supports public libraries and school systems throughout the United States. The publisher will award book collections and virtual …
In addition to those highlighted on our Self-guided Riverside Cemetery Walk, two other burial grounds have been unearthed in Defiance, both by accident! On March 26, 1910, the Defiance Democrat reported that while digging to build a new home on Front Street (now Fort Street) a burial ground was discovered. …
Scattered Bones: Uncovering Long-lost Defiance Gravesites Keep Reading »
We here at DPLS are exceptionally excited to announce that following nearly a decade in storage at the Defiance Development and Visitors’ Bureau (nine years, to be exact!), the big, beautiful desk that many remember as the centerpiece of our main lobby at the Defiance Public Library has returned! Well, …
Here at the Defiance Public Library, we’ve recently welcomed this (unintentionally chilling) cardboard rendering of the indomitable Susan B. Anthony: Susan B. Anthony, committed to social equality, played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement. As such, what better way to encourage curiosity about the history of voting rights, …
In case you haven’t heard (and you haven’t, because the info is being shared for the first time on THIS blog RIGHT now), DPLS has a Literary Yarns Scavenger Hunt in the works for the month of September. SO, we’ve been busy bringing some of the characters from Cindy Wang’s …
