Editing Paulding, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Paulding County Carnegie Library — Paulding, Ohio.jpg|thumb|left|[[Paulding County Carnegie Library]]]]
Paulding was a planned community, founded in 1848 at the center of the county, and named after the county by speculators who expected to profit by moving the county seat. In 1851, the county seat was moved from [[Charloe, Ohio|Charloe]], which had been the county seat for a decade; prior to that, court was held at New Rochester.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oWwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cAAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3093%2C2087995 | title=Paulding Communities Cut Out Of Great Forests | work=Toledo Blade | date=April 5, 1953 | access-date=April 30, 2015 | author=Miller, Ray | pages=3}}</ref>

The town square is devoted to the [[Paulding County Courthouse (Ohio)|courthouse]], an orange brick structure surrounded by trees upon a spacious lawn. In the centennial year of 1876, the county commissioners determined to build a new courthouse, and visited many courthouses, finally deciding to erect a duplicate of the courthouse in [[Adrian, Michigan]] at a cost of $40,000. The courthouse was finished in 1886.

Built in the 1910s, the [[Paulding County Carnegie Library]] was the first [[Carnegie library]] to serve an entire county instead of a single city.<ref>Renck, Melissa.  ''National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Paulding County Carnegie Library''. [[National Park Service]], 1982-09-30, 3.</ref>