What's Happening at the Library!!!!

 

 

 

The staff of White Sulphur Springs Public Library  would like to wish everyone a joyous holiday season.

 

The library will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25. 

 

The 4th Friday Fun, Frets, and Free featuring local Strum Sum Band and other local talents will return in the New Year.

 

 

 

The first library in White Sulphur Springs was established in the summer of 1914 with the help of a gift from Olive P. Stokes. Miss Stokes, a frequent visitor to the Old White Hotel, donated $100 to be used to purchase furniture and pay rent for two upstairs rooms in a building on Main Street. In 1915, the White Sulphur Springs Company donated the present site to be used for a library.

The first library building was erected in 1921.  Seven years later a community house was added to the facility. During World War II, the U.S.O added a back room to the building. In 1976, the local organization became a state-affiliated library under the auspices of the West Virginia Library Commission and adopted its new name -- White Sulphur Springs Public Library.

As the years went by and the library continued to grow, the original building became inadequate. In 1987, a new building was built on the same site.  This 5,000 square foot facility is still in use today.