1814 |
Coronaca Library Society (Abbeville County) |
1816 |
Cambridge Library Society (Greenwood County) |
1847 |
Greenwood Library of nine hundred volumes mentioned in Manual of Public Libraries |
1901 |
Library association organized by Miss Mary McGee to establish Public Library (Greenwood County) |
1905 |
Association elected an advisory board of men for library program (Greenwood County) |
1916 |
Carnegie Foundation provided grant to build a Public Library building, librarian began rare book collection, town agreed to provide funds to maintain library (Greenwood County) |
1928 |
Children's Room opened, supported by Kiwanis Club (Greenwood County) |
1936 |
WPA established Abbeville County Library |
1937 |
Greenwood City and County Library, County Council of Farm Women gained one-half mill tax support for rural library service provided by department of Greenwood City Public Library |
1940 |
Negro branch opened (Greenwood County) |
1942 |
Abbeville County Library became a community project sponsored by the Donalds Grange and moved to Grange Hall in Donalds, SC |
1948 |
Abbeville (town) Public Library established with room and stipend from town, later (1964) moved to an old house on the town square |
1956 |
Greenwood County Library moved into new quarters |
1958 |
Concrete block building constructed in Donalds for Abbeville County Library, serves as the branch library for county in Donalds today |
1960-1970 |
Greenwood provided, by contract, bookmobile service to McCormick County |
1962 |
Tax support increased to two mills (Greenwood County) |
1965 |
SC Acts No. 173 created Abbeville County Library |
1966 |
Abbeville County Library incorporated rural bookmobile and town library, Abbeville-Greenwood Regional Library formed |
1969 |
Moved into the renovated Post Office on Main Street in Abbeville |
1979 |
Tax support increased to three mills (Greenwood County) |