Creston Historical Library Memorabilia

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Laminated Newspapers

  • 1881 Pike Station Journal
  • 1882-1884 Creston Journal
  • 1900 Creston Journal
    • March 1
    • July 5 and 19
    • September 20
    • November 3 and 15
  • 1904 Creston Journal
  • 1906-1918 Creston Journal
  • 1930 Daily Record
  • 1953 History of Villages, published in the Daily Record
  • 1917-1945 World War I and II
  • 1963-1969 Kennedy Assassination and Floods
  • 1943 May 8: Germans Surrender, World War II

Framed Photographs

  • 1910 Factories east of Main Street
  • 1907-1983 Erie Railroad
  • 1925-1926 School Picture
  • 1926 Pacific Type Passenger Locomotive from book B & O Power by Alvin F. Stauffer
  • 1933 Plank Elevator calendar, donated by Kimbles
  • 1935 Electric Passenger Locomotive
  • 1937 Hudson Passenger Locomotive
  • 1984 Maple Mound Cemetery
  • 1986 Main Street
  • 1989 Dairy Mart
  • 1983 Union Depot and site of Union Depot, tracks removed
  • 1983 Erie/Conrail track removed
  • 1988 Carpenter/Reese Sohio (site of present library)
  • 1992 Crestview Extension (view of Carol and Wayne Avenues)
  • 1993 Creston Park Addition
  • 1993 Creston trees

Memorabilia

  • Cat's Meow Village of Creston School, Stebbins Bank, WCPL Creston Branch Library, Methodist Church
  • Two baskets from McIntire Basket Factory
  • One Creston Classic basket
  • One Dr. Foster medicine bottle
  • Four basketball trophies
  • Keys and key chains from Sohio Station, site of present library
  • Match holder and thermometer from Sonnedecker Livery

Miscellaneous Items

  • Cook Book, Creston Queen Ester Circle of Methodist Church
  • Memorabilia, Advertising, Collectibles and Souvenirs, 2 books
  • 1904-1923 Dates of Publication in Creston Journal of Deaths, Obituaries and Marriages
  • 1891-1935 Cannan and Creston School Programs
  • 1936-1938 Presbyterian Church Programs
  • 1960-1973 Creston Community Service Birthday Calendars
  • 1961 Methodist Church
  • 1902-1922 Methodist Church Photographs, Sunday School classes, etc.
  • 1938-1978 History of Methodist Church
  • Creston Methodist Church (ministers, programs, photographs 1839-1995)
  • Creston Methodist Church (copies of documents 1881-1945)
  • History of Presbyterian and area churches
    • Creston Presbyterian
    • Jackson Presyberian
    • Four Square
    • Canaan Lutheran
    • Nazarene
    • Free Baptist
    • Church of God
    • Chippewa Church of the Brethren
  • 1907 History of Canaan
  • 1930-1990 Annual Reunion (60 years) of the Class of 1924
  • Key to the 1st Creston School
  • 1979-1989 Letters from former Creston residents and their recollections
    • Ambrose Houghton/Martin Cole Home
    • Shady Rest Home
    • Mountain Mission
    • Ed Schrader Bed and Breakfast (History 1937 to 1993)
  • Crestview/Carol Street Allotments (from 1978) and Creston Station Apartments

Sonnedecker Memorabilia

  • History of Sonnedecker Livery
  • History of Pharmacy, Glen Sonnedecker
  • Sonnedecker match holder and thermometer
  • 1919 The Spokesman, carriage catalogue
  • Sonnedecker Family, photographs