Booking history
The Ritzville Carnegie Library is still operating in the same building that was paid for by Andrew Carnegie in 1907.
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Millie Hopkins, circulation manager at the Ritzville Library, stands behind the library’s counter in December. Hopkins has been with the library for about five years.
The shelves that house the books at the Ritzville Library are the same ones that were installed in 1907. The stuffed birds of prey that guard them are of more recent origin.
Former Washington Gov. Albert Meade lays the cornerstone of the Ritzville Carnegie Library in 1907. Mead served as governor from 1905 – 1909. He passed away in 1913 at the age of 51.
RITZVILLE - It’s a long way from Dunfermline, Scotland to Ritzville, Washington. Four thousand, three hundred eighty miles as the crow flies, in fact. (A very, very determined and untiring crow.) So why is the name of a child laborer from Dunfermline engraved proudly above a building in Ritzville?
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