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The ladies promoted the educational progress of the community by organizing its first library in March, 1917, which they named the Lincoln Memorial Library. This first library occupied rented quarters above what is now the Atherton Realty Office (currently the Lincoln Museum). Books were donated by local citizens, and the library was staffed by league member volunteers. A special fund drive was instituted to purchase a complete set of encyclopedias, and in order to raise money for additional books, the league members sold miniature log cabins and other souvenirs at the Lincoln birthplace for a number of years.

The current library building was erected after a tax referendum was approved by the voters in 1963 and the LaRue County Public Library District was formed. The loyal ladies of the Lincoln League continued their support by paying for the landscaping and draperies for the new building. There have been many dedicated members of the Ladies Lincoln League who have contributed labor, time, and money so that the community could have a library before it was publicly funded. The two who were particularly outstanding were Mrs. Hallie Miller Larue, who left her estate to the Ladies Lincoln League and Mrs. Ermine Pickerill Kirkpatrick, the faithful librarian for many years, who was paid only a pittance. During the depression years of the 1930’s a creek stone library building was constructed by the Works Progress Administration, WPA – a government agency to make work for the unemployed.