<p><strong>Description on card:</strong> Carnegie Public Library, Conneaut, Ohio
</p><p><strong>Published by:</strong> Whitmore &amp; Pontius, Conneaut, Ohio
</p><p><b>Postmark Date:</b> Aug. 30, 1924
</p><p>Used.
</p><p>The Conneaut library started as the "Peoples Free Library Association" that was dedicated to the advancement of learning through borrowing free reading materials. After a library tax levy was passed in 1905 and money was raised, the library's board of trustees purchased land from a Mrs. G.H. Sheppard on the corner of Buffalo and State streets for $4,000 (almost $104,000 in 2016). Two years later, steel magnate Andrew Carnegie donated $25,000 (over $648,000 in 2016) for the construction of the library. 
</p><p>The library opened on May 3, 1909, with 12,000 volumes. The public library was moved to a $2.3 million building that opened in May 1998. In 2015, the owner of the original library was fined for fire code violations and the building remains vacant.
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1. &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.conneaut.lib.oh.us/history">http://www.conneaut.lib.oh.us/history</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Conneaut Public Library&lt;/a&gt;
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2. Todd, Mark. "&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.starbeacon.com/news/local_news/owner-of-carnegie-library-found-guilty-of-building-violation/article_887f7c9f-476b-5777-8ca3-073ec6ad8672.html">http://www.starbeacon.com/news/local_news/owner-of-carnegie-library-found-guilty-of-building-violation/article_887f7c9f-476b-5777-8ca3-073ec6ad8672.html</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Owner of Carnegie Library found guilty of building violation&lt;/a&gt;." <em>Star Beacon</em>. 29 September 2015. Online. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
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