 | At town meeting on March 21,1892, it was voted to establish a
"Public Library at Wrentham Centre for the benifit of the whole town."
An upstairs room was rented for $100 a year in the Proctor Block ( over what
is now Tootsie's Ice Cream shop). In 1896, the Wrentham Public Library was built on the
same foundation as the Centre School, which had burned to the ground during
the night of February 20-21,1895. The building was made possible by donations from four children and grandchildren of Josiah Jones Fiske. They were 1. George S Fiske, 2. Mrs. Esther Hammond, 3. Miss Elizabeth Fiske and 4. Miss Charlotte Fiske. The building was renamed the Fiske Public Library. |