Plumb Library, Shelton, Connecticut

[LIB11168] In the winter of 1891, David Wells Plumb, a successful Shelton businessman, chaired a meeting of city residents who voted to establish a public library. The residents raised nearly $2,000 at that meeting, and in October 1892 they voted to appropriate a three-quarter-mill tax toward the library’s support. They also appointed six people as Library Directors, with Plumb serving as Library President. [Website]

1916 Public Library, Shelton, Washington

[LIB11131] Currently houses the Mason County Historical Museum.

c1910 Plumb Memorial Library, Shelton, CT

In the winter of 1891, David Wells Plumb, a successful Shelton businessman, chaired a meeting of city residents who voted to establish a public library. The residents raised nearly $2000 at that meeting, and in October 1892 they voted to appropriate a three-quarter mill tax toward the library's support. They also appointed six people as library directors, with Plumb serving as library president. [SOURCE] [LIB2690]



Library journal By Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, American Library Association, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessels
Library journal By Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, American Library Association, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessels