Published by admin on Mon, 06/16/2025 - 11:56am
Our view of early Braidwood is a rough and ready town, full of saloons and fist fights. But that is perhaps only the most obvious activities that took place. Hidden away in a small room many early Braidwoodites were doing something which required peace and quiet. Tip-toe back into the past with us to look at this clandestine activity.
In April of 1876 we read the following in the Joliet Weekly Sun, “And now Braidwood wants a public library and reading room.” Yes, those rough and ready miners wanted a library. They wanted to read, who would have thought it?