Travelin' Texas Library Mama: Library History in our own Backyard

More than a century ago, when the town of Newnan, Georgia promised to hire a librarian and buy the books, Andrew Carnegie gave the town $10000 to build a library, which served the North Georgia community from 1904 to 1987, ... An icon of the Roaring 20's, Mineral Wells' lavish Baker Hotel opened two weeks after the stock market crash of 1929, and closed its doors three years later. Since then, this ghost of a hotel has fallen victim to time, weather, rodents, ...