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The City of Baytown operates the Sterling Municipal Library, which has a collection of 300,000 items. [60] The original Goose Creek Library opened in 1925; [61] the first county library in Texas, it was funded by the private donations of Humble Oil and Refining Company president Ross S. Sterling. The current Sterling Library was dedicated in 1963.
Sterling High School (Baytown, Texas) Ross S. Sterling High School is a public high school located in Baytown, Texas and classified as a 6A school by the UIL. Sterling is a part of the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District which covers southeastern Harris County. The school was built in 1966 to accommodate the growing population ...
October 20, 2001. The Sterling Public Library, at 210 S. 4th St. in Sterling, Colorado, was built in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1] It was built as a Carnegie library, funded by a $12,500 Carnegie grant, and was built during 1916 to 1918. [2] It is about 61 by 31 feet (18.6 m × 9.4 m) in plan. [3]
The Houston Public Library system traces its founding to the creation of the second Houston Lyceum in 1854. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The lyceum was preceded by a debating society, a special-interest mechanics' lyceum, and a circulating library. The lyceum's library eventually split into a separate institution at the end of the 19th century.
The Sterling public library began in 1871. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The Conant Public Library building, financed by Edwin Conant in memory of his daughter Elizabeth Ann Conant, was dedicated in 1886. [ 25 ] In fiscal year 2008, the town of Sterling spent 1.59% ($289,567) of its budget on its public library—approximately $36 per person, per year ($47.44 ...
September 13, 2023 at 12:29 PM. Two fired librarians and two library patrons are suing a small Kansas town and its leaders who objected to rainbow displays during Pride Month, even though the ...
1791 – Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna. 1920 – Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn. 1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
The Corpus Christi Public Libraries serve library patrons through the La Retama Central Library and five branch Libraries. [1] The library collection includes over 375,400 [2] items in a variety of formats, including books, audio compact discs, books-on-CD, downloadable audio books, DVDs, videocassettes, audiocassettes, large print books, electronic books, and over 200 magazine and newspaper ...