The Louisville Public Library local history collection contains books, papers, and photographs pertaining to the history of Nimishillen Township, Louisville, and the surrounding area.
We also host the Louisville-Nimishillen Historical Society's searchable online database of the Louisville Herald weekly newspaper, including every issue ever published, 1887-2019. To find obituaries, try our Louisville Herald Obituary Database to find a specific issue and page number, then search for that issue and page number in the Louisville Herald database to see the obituary as it appeared in the Herald.
Some of the materials available to view in local history include:
- Marriage-Engagement-Birth Index
- Cemetery Inscriptions, Stark County, Ohio (7 volumes)
- Louisville High School The Mirror yearbooks, dated 1941-present
- St. Thomas Aquinas High School Templar yearbooks dated 1974-present
- Church Directories
- Kenneth R. Smith's history Louisville, the Way It Was, 1834-1990
Much of the local history collection from the Louisville Public Library is on loan to the Louisville-Nimishillen Historical Society. LNHS is digitizing many old photos and documents. When completed, these digitized images will be publicly available on both the Library's and Historical Society's websites.
LOCAL AUTHORS:
LHS WW2 Veterans 1935-1945 by Harold Voltz
The Memoirs of Louisville native Alan T. Reed:
- Prophecy Made Easy
- Memoirs of a Mountain Man
- Dust to Diamonds, or Mud to Metal
- Survival of the Adequately Prepared
Any opinions expressed within the content are solely the author's and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of the Louisville Public Library.
Stark County Links:
- Stark County Recorder: official records of Stark County real estate
- Stark County OHGenWeb: a division of the USGenWeb project
- Stark County District Library Genealogy: Stark County District Library’s genealogy department resources and contact information
- Massillon Public Library Genealogy: Massillon Public Library’s genealogy department resources and contact information
Ohio Links:
- State Library of Ohio: digital library collection sources for genealogists
- The Ohio Gravestone Project: over 140,000 gravestone photos from the state of Ohio
- Ohio Death Records Index: purchase copies of Ohio death certificates
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: large scale Ohio Street maps from 1867-1970
National Links:
- Free Public Records Free Directory: links to free public records in every state
- Find A Grave: over 79 million grave records
- American Memory: Library of Congress’s digital collection of American History resources
- Chronicling America: a digital collection of the Library of Congress’s historic American newspapers