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Office Hours:
Monday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Tuesday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Wednesday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Thursday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Friday: 9:00am-4:00pm

*We are often out in the community visiting members and attending events. Please contact the office to ensure that someone will be in the office.

Executive Director:
Erica Noggle

Physical and Mailing Address:
101 E. Perry Street, Paulding, Ohio 45879
*We are located in the Paulding County Area Foundation building.

Phone:
419.399.5215

Paulding County Chamber of Commerce

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Paulding County History

Paulding is the county seat of Paulding County, Ohio. Residents incorporated Paulding in 1872, although numerous people lived in the community prior to that date. Residents named the town in honor of John Paulding, a hero of the American Revolution. Paulding helped capture Benedict Arnold, the most notorious traitor in American history.

Paulding County and its county seat grew slowly. In 1840, Paulding County was Ohios least populous county. The town of Paulding contained only two families. The principal reason for this small population was water from the Great Black Swamp and from a water reservoir for the Miami and Erie Canal and the Wabash and Erie Canal covered much of the county. It was not until 1887 that residents were able to drain most of the Great Black Swamp and the reservoir, opening the land to farming and further settlement. In 1880, only 454 people resided in the village of Paulding. In 1890, thanks to the draining of the reservoir and the Great Black Swamp, the county seats population increased to 1,879 people.

In 1886, Paulding had two newspaper offices, three churches, and two banks. Most manufacturing businesses produced items from the abundant forests surrounding the town. Two wooden hoop and barrel stave factories, two sawmills, one hub and buggy spoke factory, and two wagon and buggy manufacturers existed in the community. One of the wooden hoop and barrel stave factories paid its workers thirty cents for every one hundred hoops that a worker completed. An average worker could complete five hundred hoops per day.

During the twentieth century, Paulding continued to grow. In 2000, 3,595 people resided in the town. There’s currently over 20,000 people living countywide. Thanks to the fertile soil left behind by the drained swamp, Paulding County is now a thriving agricultural center. Businesses in the town of Paulding primarily provide services and products to farmers in the surrounding countryside

For More History Please Visit the John Paulding Historical Society’s website

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Chamber Board 

President
Abby Hornish, Union Bank

Vice President
Greg White, Paulding Mayor

Secretary
Naomi Nicely, Paulding County Hospital

Treasurer
Renee Boss

Brett Rogge
Northwest State Community College

Lora Lyons
United Way of Paulding County

Jim States
State Bank

Lisa McClure
Paulding County Area Foundation

Shaun Matako
Emmanuel Baptist Church

Executive Director
Erica Noggle