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102 Suffolk Avenue
P.O. Box 860
Richlands, VA 24641
(276) 964-5282
Fax(276) 963-1107
Hours
Sunday Closed
Monday 9a - 8p
Tuesday 9a - 5:30p
Wednesday 9a - 5:30p
Thursday 9a - 5:30p
Friday 9a - 5:30p
Saturday 9a - 5:30p
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The Richlands Women's Club provided this recently installed sign, which is visible from both Front Street and Suffolk Avenue. |
Book Discussion Group Schedule
The Richlands Book Discussion Group meets on Mondays at 4:30p. Call for more information: 276-964-5282. Light refreshments will be served.
12 Sept 2011: The Help, Kathryn Stockett
7 Oct 2011: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
14 Nov 2011: Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
12 Dec 2011: Dream, Harry Bernstein
9 Jan 2012: Tall Woman, Wilma Dykeman
13 Feb 2012: The Peach Keeper, Sarah Addison Allen
12 March 2012: Little Heathens, Mildred Armstrong Kalish
9 April 2012: The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, Julia Stuart
14 May 2012: Coal Run(?), Tawni O’Dell
Directions
From Tazewell
Take 460 West to Richlands, turning right at Claypool Hill
Exit at Rt. 67 (Jewell Ridge)
Turn left onto Railroad Avenue
Drive through one traffic light to end (road becomes one way)
Turn left onto Front Street (one way)
Library is 3 blocks ahead on left on corner of Front Street and Suffolk
Avenue. Parking available on street. If street is full, parking is
also available in a lot off of Front Street directly across from the
Library. (Turn left in front of the Library, go around the one-way
block, get in the right lane, and turn right just past the Post Office
into the lot.)
From Grundy
Take 460 East toward Richlands
Exit onto Front Street (past Clinch Valley Medical Center)
Cross railroad tracks, get in left lane
Library is 3 blocks ahead on left on corner of Front Street and Suffolk
Avenue. Parking available on street. If street is full, parking is
also available in a lot off of Front Street directly across from the
Library. (Turn left in front of the Library, go around the one-way
block, get in the right lane, and turn right just past the Post Office
into the lot.)
Staff
Jami McDonald, Manager
Barbara Justice, Circulation
Adam Howington, Circulation
Gregory Hubbard, Custodian
Laken Lester, Circulation
Lena Powers, Circulation
History
Beginning in the 1960s, Freya Dalton voluntarily operated a station library in a building she owned on Washington Square in Richlands. She provided many books herself and gathered donations from the community to stock this library. Building on her early work, the Richlands Area Friends of the Library, formed in the early 1980s under the leadership of Dr. John C. Willis, worked ceaselessly to obtain a library in the community. The Friends acquired the Dr. W. R. Williams house on Suffolk Avenue, and privately raised the funds to renovate it. Constructed in 1890 for the offices of Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Company, this building later became the residence and hospital of Dr. W. R. Williams. In 1983, the Williams family donated this property, listed on the Virginia Historic Landmarks Register, to the Town of Richlands for use as a library. This facility opened 1 October 1984. Architect for the renovation of this building was Cameron Wolfe and contractor was Henry Nickels, Inc. It was first known as the Western District Branch, then as the Maiden Spring Branch and, now, as the Richlands Branch of Tazewell County Public Library.
