Lynnfield Public Library

18 Summer Street
Lynnfield MA 01940

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Description:
The first library in Lynnfield, called the Lynnfield Social Library, was established in 1795 with seventy subscribers or shareholders. The Lyceum Library followed in 1835 and later merged with the Social Library. After the private home in which the collection was housed was later destroyed by fire, the Lynnfield Agricultural Library was established about 1850 and was financed by shareholders. In 1890 when the state offered $100 to every town that would appropriate an equivalent amount to establishing a free public library, Lynnfield voted at town meeting to elect a Board of Trustees and to appropriate the funds to acquire the gift. The Lynnfield Public Library opened on July 22, 1892 with a collection of 554 books in a room in the new Town Hall. Elizabeth W. Green became the first librarian.