Welcome to the Black Swamp Memories Digital Scrapbook Project.

Black Swamp Memories is an online scrapbook of historical images and documents illustrating the history and development of the northwestern Ohio region formerly known as the Great Black Swamp. The goal of the project is to, in time, provide a comprehensive and illustrative collection of photographs and documents that “tell the story” of the history of our region.

The first phase of the project is to build a collection of photographs documenting the Oil and Gas Boom that took place in northwestern Ohio from the late 1800s through the early 1900s and which brought about dramatic changes to the landscape, economy, towns, and people of the region.

Black Swamp Memories is a service of the Wood County District Public Library in partnership with the:

• BGSU Center for Archival Collections
• Hancock Historical Museum
• Northwest Regional Library System (Norweld)
• Wood County Genealogical Society
• Wood County Historical Center and Museum

Black Swamp Memories is supported in part by federal Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA funds, granted through the State Library of Ohio. For more information about the project, you can read our grant proposal.