January 20, 2025 · 2:04 pm
Welcome to the Historic Monroe County Public Library, cease #5 on the Heritage Monument Path introduced by the Islamorada Chamber Of Commerce.
Within the photograph you possibly can see all 4 of the notable features of the Historic Library: publish, signal, plaque, & library . A plaque on the quarried stone sitting on the bottom states a lot of the following paragraph written. The #5 marker on the posts signifies that that is the fifth cease on the numbered Heritage Monument Path of Islamorada. The Monroe County Public Library signal sits solely 10 ft or so from US-1 at Mile Marker 81.5. The authentic constructing is pictured sitting solely 30 ft behind the highway signal.
Helen Wadley Department Library: The general public library constructing was constructed initially by the Pink Cross and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) three years after the “Nice Hurricane” of 1935, to function a neighborhood hurricane shelter. Previous to that point no protecting buildings existed in Islamorada; consequently, lots of of veterans and native residents died with little or no safety from excessive winds and water. The poured concrete and metal partitions of the shelter are 18 inches thick at its base. Moreover it served because the native faculty, changing the earlier faculty destroyed by the storm. Later it functioned as a church and a U.S. Coast Guard facility earlier than changing into a library in 1966. A library addition was constructed onto the rear of the unique construction in 1983.
The library is one in every of many stops on the Heritage Monument Path of Islamorada. You’ll find this vacationers cache of city-packed data positioned all through Islamorada at lots of the places detailed inside the handout together with the Islamorada Welcome Heart.