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Bay City Library

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Bay City, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 28° 58' 53.295492", -95° 58' 3.003816"
 
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    Organized in 1912, the Bay City Public Library was first housed in the J. P. Keller Insurance Company office. The non-profit Bay City Library Association, also formed in 1912, spearheaded community fund raising efforts to operate the library. Land was purchased in 1913, and a library building was completed in 1914. The first librarian was Miss Josephine McCullough. A new library building was constructed in 1958, and a friends of the library organization was formed in 1977. The Bay City library became part of the Texas state library system in 1987. (1989)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

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