Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.
From the record
“and elected the above named persons, as recommended by the president, thus creating a Library Board of Trustees. This plan has been working very satisfactory for more than three years.”
History of Fairfield County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens (1912). Machine-read text.
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Fairfield County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.93000892- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1925 to 1984
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The name " VioleL" is understood to have been derived from the luxuriance with which the flower bearing that name grew on some portions of its soil. Pickerington is situated in Violet. A man by the name of George Kirk first purchased the eighty-acre tract in which the village stands. Subsequently the land fell into the hands of Mr. Pickering, who laid out the town and christened it with his own name.
Violet; in churches, schools, and the general spirit and enterprise of the times, is not behind any township of the county. Settlements were first begun in the vicinity of where Pickerington now stands. Residences were located through the township with reference to springs and water streams, as well as the quality of the lands. Some of the first settlers came out in advance of their families and first built their cabins; in other instances the families came together, and took their chances in the forests. Dr. Tolbert was prob- ably the first physician in the township - at least among the first. He is still living at a very advanced age, and has been for many years a citizen of Jefierson.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pickerington Carnegie Library
in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 732 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pickerington Carnegie Library between 1891 and 1974: 723 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 1 Fungi.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Brzoska, D., C. A. Petrovic, Caldwell and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Pickerington, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2012: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Matheny, A.D. Van Grundy, J.D. significant as a local example of Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy combined with local 1915 was able to capture the eye of Andrew Carnegie. his hometown of Dunefermline, Scotland, in 1881, and ending about 1917, he spent over $56 million to build over 2,500 libraries in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Therefore, in order to receive a Carnegie library grant, a community had to promise to Township, which was reported to the Carnegie program in circa-1911 as 2000.
X] See continuation sheet 1916-1943 Significant Dates Significant Person Architect/Builder financial resources adequate.Communities with populations smaller than one-thousand were Cultural Affiliation Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Nineteenth Century American steel magnate and self-made millionaire Andrew Carnegie Under Criterion A in the area of Social History.the Pickerington Carnegie Library is Social History industrialist-turned-philanthropist at the turn of the century and openly sought not eligible for his program.because he did not believe that their tax base was sufficient at East Liverpool and Steubenville.Both of the projects received unusually generous projected growth.In the case of the Pickerington Library to meet this population His focus onlibraries was a product of his philosophy of philanthropy.According to Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Carnegie.a gift was beneficial only if the receiver also worked toward self-improvement.
donations reportedly due to Mr.Carnegie's fond memories of these two Ohio River towns. XX locally State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. build public libraries. United States.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 93000892, 15 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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