Roxbury Public Library

Specialties

The Free Public Library of the Township of Roxbury is the community’s connection to learning and discovery.

History

Established in 1961.

Formation of the Roxbury Public Library was begun in 1959 as a project of the Roxbury Woman’s Club and the Certificate of Incorporation of the Roxbury Public Library Association was filed and recorded on May 6, 1960. The members of the club were the catalyst behind the formation of the Roxbury Library Association and the opening of the Library on February 20, 1961. The first library building was the former home of the Steneck family at 103 Main Street, the site of the current Library.

In November of 1968 the residents of Roxbury voted to municipalize their Library. By 1971 the «library in the house» was bursting at the seams with books, structurally unsound, and too small to meet the needs of a rapidly growing community. A bequest from local author Mary Wolfe Thompson and funding from the Township enabled the first part of the current building to be erected on property behind the house. This new Library building was dedicated on September 8, 1974.