We get a little bit bored staring at our screens here in the Carnegie Library on these remote learning days, so we decided to hide a cache...Entertain us. This cache is available 24/7/365. You're looking for a small clear tube container, please re-place it carefully. Have fun and check out the other caches on our campus! If you're in a chair you can wheel right on up to this one!
On New Year’s Eve in 1904, a fire destroyed the Moody School, including its collection of 5,000 books and the finest school museum in Maine, according to Hinckley. Reconstruction began in the summer of 1905, which is when Hinckley first reached out to Andrew Carnegie about the loss of the library. When Hinckley reported that Carnegie, the great steel tycoon and philanthropist, would fund the rebuilding of a new library, the community was elated. Work began in the spring of 1906 and was completed a year later. The new Carnegie Library was dedicated during a ceremony on May 29, 1907. Jane E. Hinckley, George Walter’s sister, was its first librarian. By the time she died in February 1914, the library had over 12,000 volumes.