September 13, 2012

Four libraries built in Arkansas between 1906 and 1915 using grants from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie carry the classification “Carnegie Libraries.” The library in Morrilton (Conway County), known as the Conway County Library, received a grant of $10,000 on September 29, 1915, with construction being completed in October 1916. At the time of the library’s opening, it had the distinction of being located in the smallest town in America to have a Carnegie library. The building is still in use as a library in the twenty-first century.