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can boast ot a public library at all. much less one housed in so impressive a structure.
"It was an idea that was impossible but it just took off and succeeded," explained current librarian Penny Keesey.
Dorothy Davis, then mayor of Washington, Quita Parrish, Veronica Keating, Elizabeth Johnson and Virginia Lindstrom were the "founding mothers." With an original donation of $360.93 from the committee that managed the celebration of the Jamestown Settlement’s 350th anniversary and a determination to open the door to the world of books, they began.
Auctioned Off
The owner’s deteriorating health sent the old Presbyterian Church on Gay Street to the auction block in 1960. F. C. Baggarly had purchased the building in 1927 for use as Washington's town hall but his plans to
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