Ledyard Town of Bill Library

The thought of a library is where you go to have quiet. This library is always far from that. The ladies who work there are always so loud and inconsiderate of the people who go there for «quiet» study.

A whole
bunch
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Bills
The history of the Ledyard, CT area is filled with Bills. Not only is this library named the Bill Library but another Bill Library is in the nearby town of Groton. All these Bills makes the history a bit confusing.
The beginning of the Ledyard Bill Library actually started in 1878 when a fellow named Ledyard Bill decided that a Civil War monument would look nice in town. So he got together some money and erected a nineteen foot high obelisk and stuck it on a little plot of ground near the town center.
Ledyard’s brother Henry Bill liked the monument so much that figured that a library would look nice in front of it so he donated the money to have one built. The obelisk now stands behind the library.
The library today is quaint, pleasant and pretty impressive for such a small town. Like most small town libraries everyone is friendly and the library has lots of programs and demonstrations.
The other Bill library in Groton was donated by Frederick Bill in memory of his two sisters and curiously also has an obelisk in the back of it.
The Bill Library is a nice part of the town’s history. It’s pretty cool that what started out as an obelisk turned into a library.