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The Washburn Square–Leicester Common Historic District encompasses the historic civic heart of Leicester, Massachusetts.It includes Washburn Square, as the town common is called; the buildings along its perimeter; and the properties along Main Street extending east along Main Street to its junction with Henshaw Street.
Leicester also held a leading role in Massachusetts' second great revolution, the coming of industrialization. As early as the 1780s, Leicester's mills churned out one-third of American hand cards, which were tools for straightening fibers before spinning thread and weaving cloth. By the 1890s when Leicester industry began to fade, the town was ...
Free public library buildings of Massachusetts: a roll of honor, 1918. Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919 Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919 External links
SAILS was founded in 1995 to link the ABLE and SEAL library networks, which were later dissolved into SAILS in 2000. [3] The network provides library patrons with access to check out and return items at member libraries, [ 4 ] interlibrary loans through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners ' Commonwealth Catalog, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] mobile ...
"Massachusetts Architectural Styles," Spring 2018. [46] "Massachusetts Firsts," Summer 2018. [47] "Bird's-Eye View Maps in the State Library of Massachusetts," Fall 2018. [48] "From Common to Uncommon Advertisements in Massachusetts City Directories," Spring 2019. [49] "The Natural Beauty of Massachusetts Waterways," Summer 2019. [50]
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Massachusetts provides information on Carnegie public libraries in Massachusetts, where 43 of them were built from 1901 to 1917, funded by 35 grants totaling $1,137,500 and awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Massachusetts Carnegie libraries were also built at five academic institutions ...
Advertisement for Carlton's circulating library, Salem, 1793 Catalogue, Wareham Social Library, 1798 Rules, Worcester Circulating Library Co., 1793 Boston. American Academy of Arts and Sciences (est. 1780) [1] [2]
In 1879, the Honolulu Library and Reading Room Association was formed. The HLRRA was Hawaii's second subscription library and was supported by the Hawaiian royal family. King Kalakaua, Queen Kapionlani, Queen Emma, and Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop gave financially and donated their personal book collections to the association.