Kanawha County Public Library

Kanawha County Public Library. . , This structure, formerly a federal building, was purchased from the United States of America in 1965, remodeled and occupied by the library in 1966, Public library service was begun by this institution, then known as Charleston Public Library, on June 3, 1909. In a room in the Young Men's Christian Association building. In 1934 its name was changed to Kanawha County Public Library. Other quarters occupied by the library were located at , Quarrier Street and Hale Street S.W. corner 1912 , Virginia Street and McFarland Street N.E. corner 1913 , McFarland Street and Kanawha Boulevard N.W. corner 1914 , Capitol Street and Kanawha Boulevard S.W. corner 1921 , Lee Street between Dickinson and Hale Streets 1926, "All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."-Thomas Carlyle