Local History

 The Ridgemont Public Library is a school district library serving two villages and surrounding areas. On January 1, 1938 seven citizens of the Mt. Victory-Dudley school district organized and formed the Mt. Victory-Dudley Public library which was housed in the Mt. Victory Local School. It made two moves, first to 106-108 E. Taylor Street, then to its present location, a former meat locker, 124 E. Taylor Street Mt. Victory, Ohio. The Ridgeway Public Library began in a locker room in the basement of the old Ridgeway school. When the Mt. Victory and Ridgeway Ridgewayschools consolidated in 1963 the library left the school to make room for classes and moved uptown to a restaurant owned by Bill and Phyllis Whetsel on the corner of Main and Oak St. where the fire department now stands. It later moved a few doors north on Main St. where in January of 1974 the Ridgeway library officially merged with the Mt. Victory library to form the Ridgemont Public Library. In 19?? the library purchased the general store formerly owned by Mary Minix to expand to its present size at 109 S. Main St. The Ridgemont Public Library serves the Ridgemont School Dirstrict.