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The Gwinnett County Public Library is located in unincorporated Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States, [4] northeast of Atlanta. The library currently has 15 branches throughout the county and employs an interlibrary loan system for those with a valid library card. In 2000 the Gwinnett County Public Library won the Library of the Year award.
The Parent Teacher Association of the segregated Hooper-Renwick School opened the Mack Haygood Public Library on May 30, 1958 in Lawrenceville, Georgia. [1] It was a segregated library for the Black residents of Gwinnett, Forsyth, and Dawson counties, who were not allowed into the Lake Lanier Regional Library system's white-only libraries [2] The majority of library users were from Gwinnett ...
The Hooper-Renwick School merged with the Gwinnett County School system in the 1960s and has since served a variety of other purposes within the Gwinnett County Public School System. [1] Plans are currently underway to transition the building into a library and Black history museum.
The Freedmen's Bureau was active in Gwinnett County during Reconstruction. In 1871, the courthouse in Lawrenceville was burned by the Ku Klux Klan in an attempt to avoid prosecution for their crimes, which included the shooting of a Black election manager in Norcross. [12] Early in the county's history, gold mining was a minor industry.
Gwinnett County Public Library operates a library in Lawrenceville. [15] The Gwinnett County Public Library and the City of Lawrenceville are preserving the Hooper-Renwick Historic School Site into the first themed library of its kind in the southeastern United States. It will incorporate cultural and historic objects and artifacts with the ...
”As a recreation resource, Lake Lanier attracts about eight million visitors a year, with 68 parks and recreation areas, 1,200 campsites, and 10 full-service marinas,” according to Gwinnett ...
The Centerville area is served by Gwinnett County Public Schools. [4]The area has the Centerville Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library system, [5] which shares a building with the Centerville Community Center and the Snellville Branch that is neighbor to Thomas W. Briscoe Park in Snellville.
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