CSPAN2 Trenton Free Public Library May 20, 2017
To establish the first collection. The library was open to the public. Anyone was able to come in and do research and so on but an orderly in order to physically take out a book and borrow it and take it home you have had to pay a monthly fee. Actually thats how we were able to maintain some of the volume today because during the battle of trenton with the british and the hessians they actually burned the original library and the only way we were able to have any of the collection was individuals had to pay a prescription subscription fee and have books at home. A few years after the battle th...