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East Greenwich public library. The current East Greenwich Free Library, at 82 Pierce Street, was endowed by Daniel Albert Peirce in 1913. [19] Pierce was a local resident and co-founder of the Narragansett Electric Company. The library building is built of granite from Coventry, Rhode Island, and was dedicated on June 29, 1915. [19]
The Rhode Island Pendulum began when William N. Sherman bought the Kent County Atlas paper and plant from John B. Lincoln, who had just recently moved his paper from Phenix to East Greenwich. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first issue was published on June 24, 1854 [ 4 ] under the name The Weekly Pendulum due to its unique schedule: it would be published in ...
The Westerly Memorial and Public Library was built in 1894 and was designed by Longstaff and Hurd in the Richardson Romanesque Revival style. It was built with funds from Stephen Wilcox in 1892. [3] An eastern addition was built in 1924. Opened on August 15, 1894, it is maintained by the Memorial and Library Association of Westerly. [4] [5]
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The library was established in 1836 as a merger between two earlier subscription libraries: The Providence Library Company, founded in 1753, and the Providence Athenaeum, founded in 1831. It became "The Providence Athenaeum" by amendment to its charter in 1850.
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