Carnegie Libraries
Carnegie libraries are libraries which were built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. More than 2,500 Carnegie libraries were built, including some belonging to public and university library systems. Carnegie earned the nickname Patron Saint of Libraries.
Of the 2,509 such libraries funded between 1883 and 1929, 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in Britain and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and others in Australia, New Zealand, Serbia, the Caribbean, and Fiji. Very few towns that requested a grant and agreed to his terms were refused. When the last grant was made in 1919, there were 3,500 libraries in the United States, nearly half of them built with construction grants paid by Carnegie.
This is a list of all the Carnegie Libraries in Southern Indiana.
City |
Date of Construction |
County |
| Columbus | December 30, 1901 | Bartholomew |
| Jeffersonville | February 15, 1902 | Clark |
| Brazil | March 13, 1902 | Clay |
| Washington | March 8, 1901 | Daviess |
| Lawrenceburg | April 14, 1914 | Dearborn |
| Greensburg | March 14, 1902 | Decatur |
| Huntington | December 21, 1901 | Dubois |
| New Albany | March 14, 1902 | Floyd |
| Brookville | November 30, 1910 | Franklin |
| Owensville | December 3, 1915 | Gibson |
| Fort Branch | May 15, 1916 | Gibson |
| Princeton | January 22, 1903 | Gibson |
| Worthington | April 3, 1917 | Greene |
| Bloomfield | July 22, 1908 | Greene |
| Linton | December 24, 1907 | Greene |
| Corydon | September 27, 1912 | Harrison |
| Seymour | February 2, 1903 | Jackson |
| Marion | February 18, 1901 | Jefferson |
| North Vernon | February 9, 1918 | Jennings |
| Franklin | April 28, 1913 | Johnson |
| Vincennes | March 21, 1910 | Knox |
| Bedford | January 9, 1902 | Lawrence |
| Mitchell | May 8, 1914 | Lawrence |
| Shoals | March 14, 1913 | Martin |
| Bloomington | October 21, 1901 | Monroe |
| Martinsville | February 13, 1906 | Morgan |
| Mooresville | January 2, 1913 | Morgan |
| Rising Sun | December 3, 1915 | Ohio |
| Orleans | January 6, 1915 | Orange |
| Paoli | January 30, 1913 | Orange |
| Spencer | January 6, 1911 | Owen |
| Rockville | April 13, 1914 | Parke |
| Tell City | March 31, 1916 | Perry |
| Mount Vernon | December 28, 1902 | Posey |
| Poseyville | January 2, 1904 | Posey |
| Greencastle | January 22, 1902 | Putnam |
| Osgood | January 9, 1913 | Ripley |
| Scottsburg | November 22, 1917 | Scott |
| Shelbyville | December 30, 1901 | Shelby |
| Grandview | September 14, 1917 | Spencer |
| Carlisle | February 6, 1915 | Sullivan |
| Merom | November 9, 1916 | Sullivan |
| Sullivan | January 13, 1903 | Sullivan |
| Vevay | November 7, 1916 | Switzerland |
| Evansville East Branch | January 6, 1911 | Vanderburgh |
| Evansville West Branch | January 6, 1911 | Vanderburgh |
| Evansville Cherry Branch | January 6, 1911 | Vanderburgh |
| Clinton | February 25, 1908 | Vermillion |
| Boonville | November 3, 1913 | Warrick |
| Newburgh | May 15, 1916 | Warrick |
| Salem | February 19, 1904 | Washington |