Potomac Public Library

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It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child, and it took a village – and an act of love – to create the little library in Potomac, Illinois. The tiny brick building at 110 E. State Street was constructed on the village square by residents A.B. and Allie Duncan in memory of their daughter, Lola, after her death in 1911. The grieving parents donated the building to the village of Potomac to house a public library in her honor. Potomac Public Library opened its doors at that location on September 8, 1939. Townspeople, along with the Danville Library and the State Library in Springfield, donated the little library’s first collection of books. Ina Taylor was selected to serve as the inaugural librarian.

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