Ashby Free Public Library The library is a public library, founded in 1874 "largely through the efforts of Rev. George S. Shaw."Retrieved 05-18-2010 In the 1890s it was "kept in a private house" open to the public Tuesday and Friday afternoons.Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts. 1891. Around 1890 the Ashby library had "1,584 volumes, with which its inhabitants have a pleasant and profitable acquaintance."Hurd, ed. History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. J. W. Lewis & co., 1890.
Ashby Free Public Library The library is a public library, founded in 1874 "largely through the efforts of Rev. George S. Shaw."Retrieved 05-18-2010 In the 1890s it was "kept in a private house" open to the public Tuesday and Friday afternoons.Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts. 1891. Around 1890 the Ashby library had "1,584 volumes, with which its inhabitants have a pleasant and profitable acquaintance."Hurd, ed. History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. J. W. Lewis & co., 1890.