DeWitt's Original Library

Welcome to the DeWitt Community Library Archives Blog! We will be posting information about the history of the library, as well as the Town of DeWitt, which we have in our current library archives. We invite reader comments and information.

Below is a photograph of the original DeWitt Library, which was in a different location from our present space. It opened on April 8, 1962, in what is now the enclosed ShoppingTown Mall, but back then it was a strip mall on Erie Boulevard. That means you could pull up right to the door in your old Pontiac Bonneville. Fast forward to the present day mall, where we are nestled in the basement down a dark cavernous hallway. Boufants have become pixie cuts, and Susan Reckhow has joined a 45-year succession of directors that began with Lindsay G. Smith back in '62.

We have also included a scan of one of the first library cards issued at the DCL. Click on the images to enlarge.