Created in September 1915 by The Fort Valley Library Association, The Thomas Public Library was established from a collection of materials donated by Dr. and Mrs. Edward Gray (Lula) Thomas. Byron Public Library was established in 1936 with a donation of books from The Thomas Public Library.<\/p>\n
In 1971, Peach Public Libraries was formed with Thomas Public Library as the headquarters library and Byron Public Library as a branch library.<\/p>\n
Locations of Thomas Public Library<\/p>\n
Locations of Byron Public Library<\/p>\n
Below are some newspaper articles and other items related to the history of Peach Public Libraries, Thomas Public Library and Byron Public Library.<\/p>\n
Created in September 1915 by The Fort Valley Library Association, The Thomas Public Library was established from a collection of materials donated by Dr. and Mrs. Edward Gray (Lula) Thomas. Byron Public Library was established in 1936 with a donation of books from The Thomas Public Library. In 1971, Peach Public Libraries was formed with Thomas Public Library as the headquarters library and Byron Public Library as a branch library. Locations of Thomas Public Library Evans Building (corner of Main Street and Camellia Blvd.): 1915 to 1936 Peach County Courthouse annex facing Central Avenue: 1936 to 1969 (destroyed by fire in December 1969) Vacant residence on Central Avenue: 1969 to 1972 Persons and Miller Street: 1972 to 1998 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive: 1998 to present Locations of Byron Public Library Wooden building (former post office and telephone exchange) next to Dr. Kay’s office: 1930 to 1936 Dupree’s Store (Main Street): 1936 to 1939 Byron Public Schools: 1939 to 1944 Old City Jail: 1944 to 1956 Downtown Store: 1956 to 1975 Byron City Complex: 1975 to 1985 Church Street: 1985 to present (expanded in 1997) Below are some newspaper articles and other items related to the history of Peach Public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachpubliclibraries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachpubliclibraries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachpubliclibraries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachpubliclibraries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachpubliclibraries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/peachpubliclibraries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/peachpubliclibraries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachpubliclibraries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}