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William Dixon Burnham c. 1919 The Burnham Library, May 11, 2012. In 1904, the Bridgewater Library Association was established, succeeding previous lending libraries operated by individuals in town. In 1909 room for library purposes was set aside in recently built town hall.
US 7 and CT 4 over the Housatonic River ... Bridgewater Center Historic District: ... churches, and the D.M. Hunt Library from 1891. 44: Farnum House: Farnum House ...
The town of Bridgewater was original part of New Milford, and was settled in the mid-18th century. It was formally separated from New Milford in 1856. The center village began to take shape with the construction in 1807 of the Congregational Church at a geographically central part of "The Neck", as the portion of New Milford east of the ...
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 Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3. Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent.
Brooks was a long-time resident of Bridgewater, Connecticut, which built a town library wing in his name. Although a decade-long fund-raising effort was abandoned in 1972, a hermit in Los Angeles, Charles E. Piggott, with no connection to Bridgewater surprised the town by leaving money for the library in his will.
In November 2006, 67,000 volumes of the Burndy Library (47,000 rare books and 20,000 reference books), along with several hundred small manuscript collections and a collection of artwork and objects, were transferred to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California as a gift of the Dibner family and the Dibner Fund. [9]
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Social Library of Abington in Pomfret (est.1793) [2] United English Library for the Propagation of Christian and Useful Knowledge, Pomfret (1739–1805) [ 2 ] Saybrook