Touch a Truck

Are you wild about trucks? Get up close and personal!
We will have an assortment of awesome trucks and vehicles on hand to explore in the parking lot behind the library, plus you can meet the pros who operate them!
Afterwards come sign up for Summer Reading on the Kid’s Floor!

Date: Saturday, June 13, 2026
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
For ages 0-12.

City Directories

Directories by City:

Painesville: 1895, 1902, 1906, 1908, 1911, 1923, 1929, 1930

Painesville, Including Painesville Township, Fairport, Richmond/Grand River and Mentor Village: 1940, 1942, 1954

Painesville, Painesville Township, Villages of Fairport, Grand River, and Mentor: 1961

High School & College Yearbooks

Our Collection includes the following volumes:

Andrews School: 1

Maps & Atlases

These books show land ownership, size of property, and sometimes the location of buildings. The Lake County atlases available are:

1840 [indexed]

1857 [indexed]

Military Records

The following books are available:

Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications

Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books, volumes 1-166, with indices for volumes 1-160, and the Patriot Index [1990 Centennial Edition]

Roster of Ohio Soldiers War of 1812

Morley Library History

Celebrating over 100 Years of Service

Opened October 1899

The nucleus of the Morley Library on Phelps Street was provided by the local Women's Christian Temperance Union, which established a temperance library and reading room in 1878. After librarian Mary Dean's death in 1898, friends set about fulfilling her dream of a free public library.

Magnificent Memorial

Frederick William Ashley, 1863-1942

Magnificent Memorial

Newspaper article from The Painesville Telegraph:

18 October 1899, page 1, columns 2-5

Leaders of Morley Library

Those who have lead Morley Library since its opening in 1899.

Frederick William Ashley, 1863-1942

Morley Family Genealogy

MORLEY FAMILY GENEALOGY

Albert Morley Family, of Painesville, Ohio, his parentage, siblings, and descendants

This genealogy was begun in 1999, as part of the centennial celebration of Morley Library, in Painesville, Ohio.

Naturalization Records

Naturalization records for Lake County, Ohio, covers the period of 1860-1975.

A project of the Lake County Genealogical Society, it is an alphabetical abstract of the naturalization petitions from Lake County Probate Court (1860-1906) and Lake County Common Pleas Court (1906-1975). This includes Declarations of Intention and petitions that failed for a variety of reasons.