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Centennial Celebration: CCHM hosts 2009 commemorative double header
Join us in 2009 when the Clark County Historical Museum hosts the Centennial Celebration of its Carnegie Library Building.
Also in 2009, the museum, located in the former beaux arts-style Carnegie Library Building since 1964, celebrates its 45th anniversary. (The Clark County Historical Society, the governing branch of the museum, was founded in 1917.)
The building is one of 2,509 libraries built between 1883 and 1929 by 19th-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). (Forty-three Carnegie libraries were built in Washington State; 31 in nearby Oregon.) Carnegie, who arrived penniless in America from Scotland in 1848, amassed a $480-million fortune by 1901 when he retired.
Believing that “the man who dies rich, dies disgraced,” Carnegie devoted the rest of his life to philanthropy. By the time of his death, he had given away more than $350 million (approximately $4.3 billion, adjusted to 2005 figures).
Clark County Historical Museum and the Fort Vancouver Regional Library system (www.fvrl.org) plan special events, programs and exhibits throughout 2009 to mark this prestigious anniversary, including an exhibit on Carnegie’s library connections at CCHM, and a special birthday party at the museum in May 2009.
Contact the Clark County Historical Museum, at (360) 993-5679 and www.cchmuseum.org, or e-mail: cchmuseum@pacifier.com, for more information.