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The El Paso Public Library is the longest continuously active public library system in Texas. [2] It was founded by Mary Irene Stanton, an El Paso area teacher. [3] Stanton "single-handedly becomes founder of the El Paso Public Library" when in 1894, she donated her personal collection of 1,000 books for a boy's Reading Club which was housed in a room in the Sheldon Building. [4]
El Paso: El Paso: Jan 9, 1902: $37,500 Building demolished in 1968 12: Fort Worth Fort Worth: Jun 30, 1899: $50,000 W 9th St and Throckmorton St Building demolished in 1937 13: Franklin: Franklin: Apr 2, 1913: $7,500 315 E Decherd Now the Robertson County Public Library 14: Gainesville Gainesville: Apr 3, 1912: $15,000 201 S Denton St Now the ...
Stamford is a city on the border of Jones and Haskell counties in west-central Texas, United States.The population was 2,907 at the 2020 census. [3] Henry McHarg, president of the Texas Central Railroad, named the site in 1900 for his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut. [4]
Dionne Mack (born 1973), [1] briefly known as Dionne Mack-Harvin, is an American librarian and the city manager of the city of El Paso, Texas since August 2024. [2]. She was the executive director of the Brooklyn Public Library from 2007 to 2011 and the first African-American woman to head a major library system in the state of the New York. [1]
Mary Irene Stanton (February 11, 1862 – August 26, 1946) was an American teacher and the founder of the El Paso Public Library.She was born in Georgia and taught for many years before the founding of the library, and continued to teach after leaving her position as president of the El Paso Public Library Association.
The El Paso Stanton Street Port of Entry, located at the Good Neighbor International Bridge is limited to processing passenger vehicles that are enrolled in the SENTRI program. [1] It is open from 6:00 AM - midnight weekdays, and 8:00 AM - midnight Saturdays and Sundays.
From 1991 to 1995, she was the Director of the Oak Park Public Library. [2]Brey-Casiano served as executive director of the El Paso Public Library.In 2001, Brey-Casiano stood up against the Texas Ranger, mayor of El Paso, Texas, a lawyer named Francisco Domínguez, and the El Paso police for the purpose of protecting intellectual freedom and privacy of library users.
Central El Paso is part of the city of El Paso, Texas, and contains some of the city's oldest and most historic neighborhoods. Located in the heart of the city, it is home to approximately 130,000 people. Development of central El Paso started around 1875, when the city was barely beginning to gain its roots.