| 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) |