A History of NOPL@North Syracuse
In 1927 a pie social served as the first event toward the establishment of a free library in the village of North Syracuse. The following year a Book Society formed in the community and began loaning books to its members from the shelves of a local store.
Officially chartered in 1929, the library found a home when Anna Marsh Reed offered to sell her home to the library at the corner of Main and Palmer for a modest price if she were permitted to live in the small rooms upstairs. The new library opened in 1933 with Miss Reed residing upstairs and serving as librarian.
By 1974 structural defects, space constraints and skunks made it clear that a new library building was necessary. The Friends of the North Syracuse Library, along with help from the community, the Village of North Syracuse and the Towns of Clay and Cicero, raised funds which enabled them to pay cash for the construction of a new building at the same site.
After the libraries in Brewerton, Cicero and North Syracuse joined to form the Northern Onondaga Public Library in 1996, a determination was made to construct new library facilities for each community. The new NOPL at North Syracuse library was opened at 100 Trolley Barn Lane in June of 1997 with 10,000 square feet of space, a Community Room available for use by the public, a children’s room and internet computers available to patrons.
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