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Rowan Public Library is a public library system of the town of Salisbury and Rowan County in North Carolina, founded in 1911.

History

On March 11, 1911 a group called Traveler's Club met at the Lodge of Salisbury Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, on the second floor of the Meroney Theater in Salisbury, North Carolina. At this meeting a library association was formed. Archibald Henderson Boyden, a former mayor of Salisbury and a leader and later chairman of the city school board, was elected chairman of the library association.^[1] Boyden family offered to house the first public library of Salisbury on the property they owned in the small Henderson Law Office located in the corner of Church and Fisher Streets. In 1952 A.H.Boyden's daughter, Mrs.Burton Craig gifted the lot with the law office to Rowan County for the purpose of establishing a library.^[2] Boyden heirs donated additional $75,000 for the construction of the new library building.^[3]

In 1913 Mrs. Mamie Linton accepted the position of a librarian.^[4] During this time the library moved to the former County Courthouse, dubbed the Community Building, and shared space with the police station. In 1936 the library employed its first professionally trained librarian, Miss Edith Montcalm Clark, who served as Director of Rowan Public Library for 36 years until 1972. ^[5] Ms.Clark was the person who made the library from cataloging the book collection to physical expansion of the library into Spencer, China Grove, Faith, Landis, and Rockwell. She changed the name of the library from Salisbury to Rowan to reflect the spread of libraries in the county.

Current Services

Public Programs

History and Genealogy

Computers and Internet Access

Digital Services

Library Branches

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.tommyjones.org/salisburyelks/localhistory/salisbury.htm|title=Salisbury Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks History|last=|first=|date=October 14, 2013|website=tommyjones.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=July 5, 2018}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/nr/RW0004.pdf|title=Archibald Henderson Law Office|last=|first=|date=July 6, 1971|website=North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=July 5, 2018}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll36/id/767|title=Historical Facts about Rowan Public Library|last=Witt|first=Gretchen Beilfuss|date=2008|website=State Library of North Carolina|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=July 5, 2018}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/80944320/|title=Society|last=|first=|date=September 24, 1913|work=Salisbury Evening Post|access-date=July 5, 2018|page=3}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://edithclark.omeka.net/edith-m-clark|title=Edith M. Clark|last=|first=|date=n.d.|website=Edith M.Clark History Room|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=July 5, 2018}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Resolutions/PDF/2007-2008/Res2007-27.pdf|title=A Joint Resolution Honoring the Life and Memory of Franklin Thomas "Frank" Tadlock, Former Commissioner of Rowan County|last=|first=|date=2007|website=North Carolina General Assembly|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=July 6, 2018}}