Welcome to Digital Wooster History, the online exhibition of the history of Wooster, Ohio and its surroundings. Explore our site to discover the rich history of this region from the earliest settlement to Wooster today. The Permanent Exhibit, “Communities and Connections of Wooster, Ohio,” provides an introduction to the peoples that have shaped this history. Special exhibits – the most recent on “Nineteenth-Century Newspapers” and “Pandemics in Local History” – tell important stories of local history.

This website is the work of student researchers at the College of Wooster and a project of the Wooster Digital History Project, in collaboration with local experts and professionals.