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was too small for the community. Leavell therefore created the property to develop more land for a larger library. The library is named after her mother and was completed in July 1913. The building of the library cost $ 500. It could hold 1,000 books. The
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signed the legislation to make a park from some of the land in 1973. There is still the small town of
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