Historic Public Libraries

Lane Public Library
300 North Third Street
Hamilton, OH 45011
Phone: 513-894-7156
www.lanepl.org
Built in 1866, the Lane Public Library was the first free public library west of the Alleghenies. The octagonal building contains a wide variety of historical documents pertaining to Butler County''s past.

Middletown Public Library
125 South Broad Street
Middletown, OH 45044
Phone: 513-424-1251
www.middletownlibrary.org
Begun in 1891, the Middletown Public Library's Ohio History Room contains a variety of material related to the Middletown area, Butler County, and Ohio History.

Smith Library of Regional History
15 South College Avenue
Oxford, OH 45056
Phone: 513-523-3035
www.lanepl.org/smith/html
The Smith Library, one of the Lane Public Libraries, is home to a wide variety of special collections, chronicling the history of Oxford and all of Butler County.




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