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The Adams Free Library in Adams, Massachusetts. Many cities throughout New England called their early public libraries Free, to distinguish them from many individual and accessible private ones in that relatively learned region, and the name stuck

Massachusetts · 1850–1939

The Adams Free Library in Adams, Massachusetts. Many cities throughout New England called their early public libraries Free, to distinguish them from many individual and accessible private ones in that relatively learned region, and the name stuck, Massachusetts, 1850–1939
The Adams Free Library in Adams, Massachusetts. Many cities throughout New England called their early public libraries Free, to distinguish them from many individual and accessible private ones in that relatively learned region, and the name stuck, Massachusetts, 1850–1939. Libraries — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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