Easton Area Public Library
The Easton Area Public Library serves Easton, Pennsylvania in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It is a Carnegie library and was predated by a community library constructed by the Easton Library Company in 1811. With a grant in 1901 for $57,000 by industrialist Andrew Carnegie a new library began construction at 515 Church Street and was completed in 1903.The library system consists of the Main library serving as the headquarters, and the Palmer Branch located at 1 Weller Place, Palmer Township which was constructed in 1986.The main location in Easton, Pennsylvania includes the Marx Room, which was added in 1985 to serve as a local history room. This addition houses the largest collection of local history and genealogy in northeastern Pennsylvania with roughly 15,000 historical texts and materials about the Easton area and Northampton County.The library holds the oldest known map of Easton, which dates back to the early 18th century, and the original Flag of Easton, which was hoisted during the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in the Thirteen Colonies, which was read simultaneously in only three designated locations: Easton, Philadelphia, and Trenton, New Jersey, at noon on July 8, 1776, four days after its unanimous adoption by the Second Continental Congress.
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Church Street, Easton
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18042 Easton
Pennsylvania, United States
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