Sweetwater Valley Library

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Learn more about the Cobb County Public Library System. Simply click on the links to learn where libraries are in Cobb County as well as their hours, phone numbers and directions to their locations. Also click on the links to learn more about the special collections and services offered at different libraries within Cobb County. Quick links will also take you to information about the Library’s Governing Board of Trustees and about any jobs currently available at the library.Library service began in Cobb County with the Marietta Young Men’s Debating and Library Association in 1874. In 1882 the Franklin Lending Library was opened in the home of Sarah Freeman Clarke and in 1883 the Marietta Library Association was founded. The first library building, the Sarah Freeman Clarke Library opened on Church Street in 1893. In the city of Acworth the Carrie Dyer Reading Club was established in 1889. Austell established library service through the Austell Woman’s Club in the late 1920’s.Cobb County established a library through the Board of Education in 1948. In 1957 a Cobb County-Marietta Public Library Board organized. Finally, in 1959 the city of Marietta and Cobb County combined bringing the Clarke, Fort Hill and Marietta Place libraries into the Cobb County system. In short order library service began to grow throughout the entire county.

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