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www.fortbend.lib.tx.us Fort Bend County Libraries is a public library system serving the county of Fort Bend , Texas . The main library, the George Memorial Library, is located in Richmond, Texas .
Richmond is a suburb of Houston and the county seat of Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. [5] The city is located within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census , the city population was 11,627.
In 1822, a group of Stephen F. Austin's colonists, headed by William Travis, built a fort at the present site of Richmond. The fort was called Fort Bend because it was built in the bend of the Brazos River. [6] The city of Richmond was incorporated under the Republic of Texas along with 19 other towns in 1837. Fort Bend County was created from ...
The branch is located at 7979 South Kirkwood Street [110] and was originally named the Alief Branch Library when it opened in 1985. [34] [35] The library was later named for David M. Henington, who served as the Director of the Houston Public Library for 26 years. [111]
Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
After the City of Richmond's finance committee rejected the first Carnegie offer in 1901, Carnegie offered to donate $100,000 to the city of Richmond, Virginia, for a public library. The city council had to furnish a site for the building and guarantee that $10,000 in municipal funds would be budgeted for the library each year.
Dr. Thomas E. Randle High School is a public high school in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, with a Richmond postal address. [2] It is a part of the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD). Its boundary includes portions of Rosenberg, most of Pleak, and all of Kendleton.
Richmond Public Library may refer to: Richmond Public Library (Canada), a public library in Richmond, British Columbia;