Marshall County, West Virginia     Moundsville Public Library

Submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook@trellis.net>, March 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 27

MOUNDSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The Moundsville Public
Library is an institution of which the progressive little City of
Moundsville. Marshall County, is justly proud. It was estab-
lished in 1917 by the Teachers' Club, under the leadership of
Mrs. Frank T. Fulton, to whose initiative and zealous efforts,
as an organizer and later as president of the Library Board,
the success of the institution is largely due.

In addition to the Teachers' Club various other organiza-
tions have given moral and financial aid to the library, espe-
cially the Woman's Club and the Tuesday Arts Club, both of
which have made annual donations to the institution from its
inception, and are still lending their support, the Woman's
Club being the first organization in the city to promise en-
couragement and a definite sum to the promoters.

Through the efforts of the Library Board several hundred
dollars have been subscribed annually by generous citizens,
these last mentioned donations making by far the most im-
portant source of income to supplement the fund raised by a
city tax levy which is now imposed for library purposes.

The library now has a collection of 3,000 volumes, in the
assortment of which especial attention is given to the needs of
young people, while the general service is of excellent order.
Mrs. Ida Hankins is the loyal and efficient librarian, ever
working to make the library play its proper part in the com-
munity life of the city. The library is open daily from 2:30
to 9 P. M., and is the center of much of the cultural life of
Moundsville and Marshall County.