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The St. Lucie County Public
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Library System began when the St. Lucie County Library Association was established in 1946 with a bequeath of the late P. P. Cobb, a prominent citizen of Fort Pierce. With only $ 1,000 from Cobb, the Library Association started working towards the building of a proper library.
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Commission to form a regional library system. Each county had only one library and the one in Fort Pierce was designated as the headquarters. The St. Lucie-Okeechobee
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