The hardback book is now available and will make a great gift for that hard-to-buy-for person or for your own research library.  It is available now for $35 dollars plus tax at the Clarke-MayMuseum at 162 West Union Street or at the Historical and Genealogical Library at 210 North Court Street, Circleville, Ohio.  Hours for both facilities are 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday.  The library is also open on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.

Terry Frazier, past president of the Pickaway County Historical Society has written and compiled a book entitled “Pickaway County Place Names.”  Frazier, who has had a life-long interest in geography, has spent years collecting historic names and maps of PickawayCounty.  If you have done research in PickawayCounty you probably have come across names of places that no longer exist, such as Salem, Mackey Ford, and ToadRunSchool and that no longer appear on maps.  The Historical Society is proud to sponsor the publication of Frazier’s book as part of PickawayCounty’s 2010 bicentennial.

As a Bicentennial project, all records which can be located from the year 1810 (when Pickaway became a county) will be placed on this web site. These include lawsuits, deeds and other documents, marriages, estates, wills, and other documents.

Periodically, pages of information from ledgers and account books located in the Pickaway County Historical & Genealogical Library will be placed on this site. Information about the book will be given so that research into further items can be accomplished. Contact the library with any questions.

Research will be completed by library volunteers on a first come, first served basis for $25 per surname. Requests must be made by regular mail to PCHS, 210 North Court Street, Circleville, OH 43113 and must include a letter of request with background information.

A check or money order for the research fee must accompany your request. All appropriate library collections will be researched and copies made of findings. Copies of large files will result in a request for copy costs at the rate of $.25 per copy.

Orders for books or CDs may be sent to the address above with the appropriate fees. Materials will be mailed within one week of receipt.

The History Detectives aired a program segment called "Cemetery Alarm" on PBS, Monday, July 6, 2009. "Cemetery Alarm" is a story about grave robbing and the finding of a grave torpedo that was invented in Pickaway County. Segments of the story were filmed in Circleville with one segment at our Historical and Genealogical Library. Library volunteer, Paul Mayberry, author of Busy Bodies (a book about the invention of grave torpedos and grave robbing in Pickaway County) was featured.