Back to The Future
In a city where the word `oldest’ greets visitors at nearly every turn, The Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport stakes a claim as the oldest lending library in the United States
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The Redwood Library & Athenaeum was established in 1747 by Abraham Redwood and 45 colonists with the goal of making written knowledge more widely available to the Newport community. The Library was open to the public, though not "free," and remains a membership, or subscription, library.
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