HISTORY OF THE WALPOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Walpole Library celebrates its Quasquicentennial!

1876 - 2001

• "Walpole's New and Costly Public Library Dedicated with Ceremonies Befitting the Occasion. A Large Attendance" (Walpole Enterprise, May 16, 1903)

• "The Walpole Public Library" by Eleanor M. Harding - (from Ye Sawmill Settlement: a history of Walpole's Government 1724-1974)                                                                                   
• "Grass roots for library system established in 1816" (Walpole Times, April 2, 1964)

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Library Chronology

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• Walpole Gets Another Gift - Charles Bird to Donate Land for the Carnegie Public Library (Norwood Advertiser and Review, August 16, 1901)
  
• Dedication of the Walpole Public Library (as presented in the program for the dedication)
  
• Walpole Public Library (?Walpole Enterprise, May, 1903?)
  

• A Description of the Late 1960's Addition
  

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