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The Brazoria County Library System operates public libraries in Brazoria County, Texas, United States. The system has several libraries in many cities. Branches
The name of Henleaze probably derives from a Robert Henley, who in 1659 bought a property which became known as Henley's House and later as Henleaze Park. [2] The area was a rural part of the parish of Westbury on Trym until 1896, when land between Henleaze Road and Durdham Down was sold for development.
In addition, an academic library was built at Wiley University in Marshall from a $15,000 grant awarded March 26, 1906. Today 13 of these buildings survive, with 10 listed on the National Register of Historic Places. They were often designed by the leading Texas architects of the day.
The library includes over 970,000 books, 19,000 maps, 93,500 photographs, 4,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 11,500 broadsides, and 50,000 items in other multimedia formats. Most of the sources are about Texas and Mexico , but also include items are also from the other Latin American countries, particularly: Central America, Chile , Peru , and ...
Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze is an electoral ward in Bristol, England, covering the neighbourhoods of Henleaze and Westbury-on-Trym in the north-western suburbs of the city. It is represented by three members of Bristol City Council , which as of 2024 [update] are Nicholas Coombes, Caroline Gooch and former government minister Stephen Williams ...
The house was built around 1810 and was formerly one of two former lodge houses to Henleaze Park, the residence of Samuel and Walter Derham. Henleaze Park later became St Margaret's School before being demolished in 1962. [2] It is a few miles from Blaise Hamlet, John Nash's collection of picturesque cottages.
The Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection is an extensive map collection owned by the Perry–Castañeda Library at The University of Texas at Austin. [ 1 ] Many of the maps in the collection have been scanned and are available online, and most of these maps are public domain .
During the initial years of the library's operation, Cooke County Representative George W. Dayton and Lillian Gunter began crafting the Texas County Library Law in 1915. That same year at the October, 1915 Texas Library Association conference in San Antonio, Texas-president of the association Elizabeth West "paid tribute to Miss Gunter". [10]