Stephenville Library

The Stephenville Library has an interesting beginning. 

Prior to 1903, the Twentieth Century Club ran the library from their homes with donated books.  In 1919, they raised enough money to buy a lot at the corner of Green and Erath Streets. (Many years earlier this had been the site of a log cabin where George Erath lived while laying out the streets of Stephenville.) 

In 1924, a building was completed.  Then in 1968, the United States Government offered the Post Office building which had been built in 1935, to the city of Stephenville for one dollar, if it was to be used for educational purposes.  The city accepted and remodeled the post office building to library standards.  The Twentieth Century Club and volunteers moved all the books and materials to its new location, where it remains today.  The old building is now used by MHMR.