Mildred L. Terry Branch Library-GHS 106-1-Muscogee Co
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N 32° 27.527 W 084° 59.251
16S E 689153 N 3593073
640 Veterans Parkway, Columbus
Waymark Code: WM7PV2
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/19/2009
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The first public library for African Americans in segregated Columbus, the Colored/Fourth Avenue Library, opened on January 5, 1953. The existence of this facility resulted from covenants and restrictions barring the use of the city´s new public library by African Americans. The project was completed with expenditures of less than one hundred thousand dollars. The library was renamed the Mildred L. Terry Branch in 1981 to honor its first librarian.
2003-12 Erected by the Georgia Historical Society, Kendrick High School Young Historians, Muscogee County Friends of Libraries, Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System, and Historic Columbus Foundation 106-1
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 106-1
Date: 2003.12
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Society, Kendrick High School Young Historians, Muscogee County Friends of Libraries, Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System, and Historic Columbus Foundation
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