The Harcourt Wood Memorial Library

Connecticut · United States · School

Harcourt Wood died at eleven of meningitis, and the whole school was put under quarantine. His parents built this library in his name.

The library at Derby, Connecticut was built in 1902 with money given by Colonel and Mrs Wood, in memory of their son.

Harcourt Wood died at eleven years old after meningitis. The entire school was quarantined afterwards.

His parents put up a building for the town and gave it his name, which is what people with money did with grief in that period and is still one of the more useful things anyone has done with it.

One snowy evening after closing time, a woman and her son came up to the library, and what happened then is the account this entry rests on.

A child memorial library, reporting a child, is either the most obvious kind of story a building could generate or the most fitting one. Both readings are available.

The library is open and is still serving the town it was given to.

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The Harcourt Wood Memorial Library is in Connecticut, United States.