Greenville Public Library (Rhode Island)

Greenville Public Library
Country	United States of America
Type	Public Library
Location	Village of Greenville in Smithfield, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°52′16″N 71°32′57″W / 41.8711°N 71.5492°WCoordinates: 41°52′16″N 71°32′57″W / 41.8711°N 71.5492°W
Branches	1
Collection
Size	115,574
Access and use
Circulation	151,307
Population served	21,000
Website	http://www.yourlibrary.ws/
Map
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Greenville Public Library is a public library at 573 Putnam Pike in the village of Greenville in the town of Smithfield, Rhode Island directly across from the William Winsor School.

History[]

The Greenville Public Library was founded in 1882 and was originally located on the Greenville Common near St. Thomas Church and Greenville Baptist Church and served Smithfield and the surrounding towns. In 1883 William Winsor, one of the original Library incorporators, donated the library collection of the Lapham Institute, a former Free Baptist school founded in 1839, to the Greenville Public Library.^[1]^[2]^[3] In 1956 the library moved up the hill from its original downtown Greenville location into a new building onto which two large additions were constructed in the late twentieth century.^[4]

William Winsor, was a co-founder and donor of a large collection of books to the library in 1883
The Lapham Institute (1839) in Scituate where much of the original library collection originated in 1883
Old Greenville Public Library building, in downtown Greenville was originally between the Baptist and Episcopal churches