Links & Sources
Essential Links for Wooster History
Genealogy & Local History Department, Wayne County Public Library
Special Collections, College of Wooster Libraries
Wayne County Genealogical Society
Wayne County Historical Society: Website created by the 2019 WDHP team
Additional Links
Wayne County Economic Development Council
Wooster Digital History Student Blog
Wooster Digital History on Facebook
Essential Print Sources for Wooster History
Caldwell's Atlas of Wayne County (1873 and 1897).
Ben Douglass, The History of Wayne County, Ohio: From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time. Indianapolis: R. Douglass, 1878.
Ann Freedlander Hunt, Gone but Not Forgotten: A Freedlander Legacy. Minneapolis: Two Harbors Press, 2012.
R. Douglas Hurt, The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Arnold Lewis, et al, Wooster in 1876. Wooster: Wooster Art Center Musuem, 1976.
Paul Locher, When Wooster Was A Whippersnapper: Two Hundred (or So) Yarns about Wooster for Two Hundred Years. Wooster: The Daily Record, 2008.
Harry S. McClarran, A Glimpse From the Front Porch and a Bridge to the Past: A Photographic History of Wooster Ohio 1808-2008. Wooster: Wooster Book Company, 2007.
Harry S. McClarran, A Tribute to Wooster: Guarding Its Past, Present, and Future: A Second Photographic History of Wooster, Ohio, 1808-2012. Wooster: Wooster Book Company, 2012.
Lucy Notestein, Wooster of the Middle West. New Haven: Published for the College of Wooster by Yale University Press, 1937. Reprinted by Kent State University Press, 1971.
Robin Radzinski, City of Wooster: Roster of Historic Landmarks, July 1997. The Genealogy & Local History Department, Wayne County Public Library
Wayne County: A Pictorial History. Marceline, Missouri : Heritage House Publishing, 1994.
Bonnie S. Wipert, ed. Church Histories of Wayne County, Ohio. Wooster: Typescript by editor, 1987.
D.W. Shives, Geo. A. Shives, and Chas. H. Merz, Compilers. Wooster City and Wayne County Business Directory 1884-1885, Wooster: Wayne County Herald, 1884.
S. Zimmerman. Wayne County Fair Horse Racing 1869-1880. Wooster: Lulu Press, 2011.