Denver Public Library Looks at Name Changes for Barnum, Byers Branches
The Byers Branch Library, now a Denver landmark, opened in 1918 at 675 Santa Fe Drive; it was named for William Byers, who'd founded the Rocky Mountain News sixty years earlier. Also coming under scrutiny was the Ross-Barnum Branch Library, at 3550 West First Avenue, which gets half of its name from the so-called “Greatest Showman,” P.T. Barnum, who in 1878 bought the land where the library now sits for a subdivision. The Ross-Barnum Library opened in 1954. But today, DPL sees a need for change. In his newspaper, Byers openly advocated for "a few months of active extermination" against ...
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