History of the Earlimart Branch Library

The Earlimart Library was established in October, 1914 in the Alila School with Mrs. Rebekah Bristow as custodian. It offered the usual 50 books of a County deposit station.

In October 1915, the library was moved to Mr. Ough’s Store with Miss Violet Ough as custodian. The Branch was discontinued in December, 1915, and then re-established in February 1916, in the school house.

The library was then moved from store to store with store owners as custodians. Then, in 1926, it was moved to the Adams family store where it stayed until 1940.

During WWII, the library was in the home of Reverend and Mrs. Swift.

The present Branch was built in 1959, and in 1963, Earlimart was the second most active County Branch, lending 67,176 books.