First Library

The Alexandrian Library was the first in Genesee County and was founded in 1811 by Alexander Rea, Noah North, Ezra Osborn & Sebe Brainard

Marker is on Buffalo Street, on the left when traveling west.

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Site of Nevada’s First Public Library

In 1895, Washoe County District Attorney, Frank H. Norcross, later a Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court and a Federal Judge, began a drive to establish Nevada’s first free public library in Reno. That year, he persuaded the Nevada ...

Kershaw's First Library

This building, originally just south of Kershaw on what is now U.S. Hwy. 521, was built in 1900 for Capt. James V. Welsh (1845-1906) as the office for J.V. Welsh & Sons, a lumber mill. It later housed Kershaw’s first ...

First Public Library Building in West Hartford

First Public Library

Building in West Hartford

Erected as a Memorial to

Noah Webster

Presented to the Town by

Sarah Whitman Hooker Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

Aided by Funds Collected from Townspeople

February 27, 1917

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and Brace Road, ...

First County Library in the United States

1901

Here stands the first county library in the United States. Given to the people of Van Wert County, by

John Sanford Brumback

In recognition of his gift, this memorial was erected by the Kiwanis Club of Van Wert.

Marker is on West Main ...

Prince Frederick Library “Firsts”

The west wing of this library was built in 1903 on Main Street as the County’s first bank. In 1913, it was replaced, moved and became the County’s first library; 1916 County’s first Boy Scoot Troop met there; 1921 it ...

Nation's First Public Library

Nation's First Public Library

In 1803, Caleb Bingham established in Salisbury the first library in the United States open to the public free of charge. The collection was expressly created for use by young people nine to sixteen years of age ...

Site of the First County Free Library Branch in California

In 1908 Elk Grove acquired through the efforts of Miss Harriet G. Eddy, then principal of Elk Grove Union High School, the first county free library branch in California. Subsequently, California's county free library branch system has become one of ...

First Free Public Library Building in the United States

First Free

Public Library Building

in the United States

Donated by

Andrew Carnegie

Supported by

Public Funds

Completed in 1890

Women's Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Marker can be reached from Allegheny Square East west of East Ohio Street.

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