Walpole Library History

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