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Flemington Free Public Library
Distance: 2.2 Mi118 Main St
08822 Flemington -
The Buzz
Distance: 24.9 Mi202 Flanders Drakestown Rd
07836-4031 Flanders -
Bernardsville Public Library
Distance: 22.8 Mi1 Anderson Hill Rd
07924 Bernardsville -
Willingboro Public Library
Distance: 33.0 Mi220 Pkwy
8046 Willingboro -
Dover Free Public Library
Distance: 31.9 Mi32 E Clinton St
07801 Dover
Hunterdon County Library
- 314 State Route 12
- Flemington, New Jersey
- 08822
- Phone: 1 908 788 1434
- Website
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Description
The Hunterdon County Library began as a system of about 160 "library stations," which were small collections of books housed in various places including general stores, post-offices and private homes. These small collections constituted "the library" for the local residents, as there was no actual library building to go to. Early in 1934, the Hunterdon County Library Association (precursor to the Friends of the Library) was organized with a retired professor, Raymond Higgins, as its chairman. The Association's Executive Board included Kurt Wiese, an author and illustrator of numerous children's books, who settled in the county several years earlier.