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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
On March 12, 1901, Andrew Carnegie, one of the world’s foremost industrialists, offered the city of New York $5.2 million for the construction of sixty-five branch libraries. The Scottish immigrant’s fortune eventually would establish many more libraries and charitable foundations.
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The Carnegie Foundation donated $20K for the construction of a library here in town that was in use from 1904 to 1966. Sadly, it was then replaced by a much less attractive 'modern' library building.
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