Our Old Bookcase: Bicentennial
Mercer County commissioners Ray Cron, Jerry Laffin and Thomas Gagel with Joyce Alig, Mercer County Historical Museum director signed the following proclamation:
“Board of Mercer County Commissioners Proclamation, in recognition of Ohio Bicentennial Commission of Mercer County: whereas the Mercer County Commissioners and the Mercer County Historical Society recognize the importance of the heritage of Mercer countians in this great state of Ohio, and whereas, the Mercer County Commissioners and the Mercer County Historical Society acknowledge the historic event of Ohio’s Bicentennial, 1803-2003, and whereas, the Mercer County Commissioners and the Mercer County Historical Society encourage Mercer countians to participate in the Ohio Bicentennial Celebration, by preserving Mercer County’s heritage.
Now, therefore, be it resolved that we, Mercer County Commissioners, Jerry Laffin, Ray Cron, and Thomas Gagel, and Mercer County Historical
Museum Director Joyce Alig, do hereby proclaim the Ohio Bicentennial Commission of Mercer County, as the official organization to plan and implement Mercer County, Ohio’s celebration plans, in honor of Ohio’s Bicentennial Celebration in 2003.
In witness, thereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names and caused the seal of Mercer County to be affixed at Celina, Ohio, this 14 day of September, in the year of our Lord, two thousand. Board of County Commissioners of Mercer County, Ohio: Jerry Laffin, Chairman, Thomas Gagel, Vice Chairman, and Ray Cron, Member, and Joyce L. Alig, Mercer County Historical Museum Director. Attest: Kim Everman, Clerk.”
The Mercer County Historical Society Members recognize the importance of the Mercer County Historical Society and its administration of the Mercer County Historical Museum with the Mission Statement, “To preserve Mercer County’s History & to educate the public about that history.”
In honor of Christmas 2021, the Mercer County Historical Society members offer this gift of caring for Mercer County’s heritage, for your Christmas present.
We ask that you value and respect this gift as we ask our Mercer County elected officials, our township trustees, and our village officials to give this institution the respect it deserves.
Please do not throw records of our heritage into the dustbin, while designating funds to preserve old buildings. The wisest course of action would be to preserve valuable old buildings as well as to preserve our records of our heritage for our future Mercer County citizens.