The Seneca Free Library

The Library was an idea generated by the Seneca Women’s Club embroidery circle in 1908. As they worked, they often discussed books and the need for a town library. After collecting 300 books they persuaded a drug store to give ...

Sparta Free Library

Prior to the construction of this building in 1902, the Sparta Free Library had several homes in the community. Schick and Roth, a LaCrosse architectural firm, designed the library building.

Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie provided construction funds. The Carnegie Foundation ...

T.B. Scott Free Library

This building (1911) is an outstanding example of library design in “Prairie School” architecture by Claude and Starck. The library was established (1889) through a bequest from T.B. Scott, lumberman, legislator, and Merrill’s first mayor, and was located in the ...

Enoch Pratt Free Library

In 1882, the merchant Enoch Pratt, wishing to make a gift to his adopted city which would benefit all of her citizens, gave Baltimore $1,058,000 to establish a public library.

The original building fronted on Mulberry Street. Designed by the ...

Free Library

The Burlington Library Association, chartered by King George II in 1757, established an early public library here.

Marker is on West Union Street 0.1 miles east of Wood Street, on the left when traveling east.

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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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