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This is a share of library stock from the late nineteenth century. Stock cost $3.00 a share and allowed the residents of Jefferson county to personally invest in their library.
This system existed from the library's conception in 1853 until 1899, when the town of Fairfield overwhelmingly voted to make the library a tax supported municipal institution: henceforth the institution was known as the Fairfield Free Public Library. This measure was the first in which the Fairfield women of legal age were allowed to vote. |
