Woodruff Memorial Library

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A Brief History of the Library In 1888, T. T. Woodruff personally selected and shipped 735 books from Boston to his 'agent' in La Junta, attorney George Kilgore. These books were the beginning of what would become known as the Young Folks Library. The library moved three more times before Woodruff Memorial Library was built at 522 Colorado Avenue in April, 1921. In 1995, in a historically close city election, a library bond issue passed by a 10-vote margin, 1,008 -998. Woodruff Memorial Library would have a new building. The old building was razed and on March 1, 1997 the facility opened its doors to the public. in 2013 renovation and expansion adding office space, local history room, covered patio, archival storage and storage space.

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