The Litheau Library, Augusta, Maine

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Lithgow Library, Augusta, Maine

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Lithgow Public Library, Augusta, Maine

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Llewellyn William Lithgow, a man universally respected and beloved, was a life member of the Augusta Literary and Library Association, and at his death, which occurred June 22, 1881, he left to the association the sum of $20,000 for the express purpose of creating a fund, to be known as the Lithgow Library and Reading Room Fund, only the interest of which could be used in establishing and maintaining a "Public Library in the City of Augusta, for the use of the citizensthereof forever, subject to such regulations and rules as the City Government may establish. The principal is never to be suffered to diminish, and if by any contingency the principal shall be reduced, said city of Augusta shall immediately make it good." [SOURCE:

Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine

By George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs

Published by Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1909

Item notes: v. 2

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Sep 18, 2006

2283 pages. Available on Google Books]

c1920's The Lithgow Library, AUGUSTA ME

The Lithgow Public Library was completed in 1896, with stained glass windows produced by Phipps, Slocum and Co. of Boston. Six of the transom windows portray historic sites of Augusta: Plymouth Trading House, Fort Western, Town Meeting House, Kennebec Bridge, South Parish Meeting House, and Cony Female Academy. The remaining 32 windows depict the marks of printers who flourished during the 15th-17th centuries. [SOURCE] [LIB1699]