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Acton Memorial Library is a public library at 486 Main Street in Acton, Massachusetts.In 1889 William Allan Wilde (1827-1902), a Sunday school publisher and philanthropist [1] who was a native of Acton, donated funds to construct the library to memorialize Acton's citizens who served in the American Civil War.
Acton Center is the civic center of the town and is the site of the town hall, the main public library (Acton Memorial Library), a children's playground, an obelisk monument commemorating Acton deaths in "the Concord Fight" of the Revolutionary War, a fire station, the Acton Congregational Church, a 64-acre (260,000 m 2) arboretum and ...
The Acton Center Historic District encompasses the historic heart of the once-rural, now suburban, town of Acton, Massachusetts. The district includes properties on Main Street, Wood and Woodbury Lanes, Newtown, Concord, and Nagog Hill Roads, and has been the town's civic heart since its establishment in the 1730s.
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In 1874, the population of the town was almost 1700. The town established its first newspaper The Acton Patriot and the residents of West Acton formed the first library The Citizen's Library. In 1890, the Memorial Library was completed and given to the town by William A. Wilde as a memorial to the Acton soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
The Minuteman Library Network (MLN), [1] founded in 1984, is a consortium of 41 public and academic libraries in the MetroWest and Middlesex County areas of eastern Massachusetts, US that share resources, patrons and services.
The new facility sparked a change in the way the Acton Library operated. Hours shifted from 4.5 to 24.5 per week. It had its own meeting room, tables and chairs for students to work at, and improved parking. The library now had a telephone, and was in a position to request books on interlibrary loans from other libraries in the region.
Construction of 3.4 miles (5.5 km) of the north end of the trail – from the South Acton train station running south to central Maynard and then southwest to White Pond Road at the Maynard–Stow border – began in 2016. The groundbreaking ceremony for the north end was held on July 21, 2016. [12]