Editing Galion, Ohio (section)

===Library===
[[File:Carnegie-library-galion-oh.jpg|thumb|left|Galion Public Library]]

The Galion Public Library was formally dedicated on April 28, 1904. The "purely 20th century synthesis of Greek and Roman designs" was designed by Vernon Redding a prominent architect from Mansfield, Ohio that designed the Mansfield Public Library using the Galion design as a foundation.<ref name="Columnist">{{Cite web|first=Timothy Brian |last=McKee|title=One of Mansfield's jewels: the Carnegie Library|url=https://www.richlandsource.com/area_history/one-of-mansfield-s-jewels-the-carnegie-library/article_e9835a8a-1c98-11e8-8b50-572283d8af7d.html|access-date=2021-02-17|website=Richland Source|date=3 March 2018 |language=en}}</ref> However, the organization and establishment of the current library were made from the efforts of a woman's organization called The Current News Club.<ref name=":0" /> The organization pushed for the establishment of a public library and started a library fund that had been started using funds from other organizations and contributions from citizens of Galion. In 1898, a state law was passed providing for a mandatory establishment of a library through the Boards of Education in Galion due to its size.<ref name=":0" /> The Current News Club incorporated the Galion Public Library Association on March 26, 1901 with "the purpose of building and opening a public library free to all the citizens of the Galion Public School district."<ref name=":0" /> The association purchased the land in which the building currently resides on North Market street for $2,850 in which "the lot already had an old log residence on it, one of the oldest buildings in the city, and was one of the early school houses half a century previously."<ref name=":0" /> This log building, now located in Heise Park,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-05-27|title=Heise Park cabin has a rich history; Constructed almost 200 years ago, it was used as Galion's first public library - Galion Inquirer|url=https://www.galioninquirer.com/features/lifestyle/54263/heise-park-cabin-has-a-rich-history-constructed-almost-200-years-ago-it-was-used-as-galions-first-public-library|access-date=2021-02-17|website=www.galioninquirer.com|language=en-US}}</ref> provided for a comfortable "reading room" and "became the pride and glory of the infant library association" but quickly became too small for to serve the citizens of Galion.<ref name=":0" /> In February 1902 the association sent representatives to meet with [[Andrew Carnegie]] to seek financial assistance in building a new library and was approved for $15,000 with a "guarantee of an annual support for the library of not less than ten percent of that amount" which was later approved by the city council with a resolution that passed on April 18, 1902.<ref name=":0" />