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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 12, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Bennington |
| County: | Hillsborough |
| State: | New Hampshire |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Libby Dodge  |
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| Found by: | grandpadad |
| Last found: | Jul 14, 2014 |
| Status: | FFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 12, 2005 |
You will find what you are seeking, to add to your collection, in Mr. Dewey’s New Hampshire.
In 1860 a group of resident women founded and ran the Bennington Circulatory Library for 20 years. They acquired and maintained a collection of 235 books and held them in various private homes in town. In March 1880 the town voted to establish the Bennington Town Library and from 1880 to 1906 the library operated from what is now the restroom at the Bennington Town Hall.
In 1906 George Edward Payson Dodge presented the town with $8,000 to build a library on Main Street. The brick and granite building that was built serves as the town's library even to this day. The library was dedicated on August 1, 1906 and has since been known as the G.E.P. Dodge Library.
George Edward Payson Dodge was born in Bennington in 1839, the son of George Dodge. As a child he moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts, then to Boston, Massachusetts and finally to Chicago where he and two others established the Phelps Dodge & Palmer wholesale boot and shoe company. The library's bronze doors were given to the library in memory of Mr. Dodge by his partner Mr. Phelps.
In 1860 a group of resident women founded and ran the Bennington Circulatory Library for 20 years. They acquired and maintained a collection of 235 books and held them in various private homes in town. In March 1880 the town voted to establish the Bennington Town Library and from 1880 to 1906 the library operated from what is now the restroom at the Bennington Town Hall.
In 1906 George Edward Payson Dodge presented the town with $8,000 to build a library on Main Street. The brick and granite building that was built serves as the town's library even to this day. The library was dedicated on August 1, 1906 and has since been known as the G.E.P. Dodge Library.
George Edward Payson Dodge was born in Bennington in 1839, the son of George Dodge. As a child he moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts, then to Boston, Massachusetts and finally to Chicago where he and two others established the Phelps Dodge & Palmer wholesale boot and shoe company. The library's bronze doors were given to the library in memory of Mr. Dodge by his partner Mr. Phelps.