Booth & Dimock Memorial Library

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The library was first known as the Coventry Social Library. A wealthy Californian named H. G. Cogswell, remembering the kindness shown to him by some Coventry ladies, made a donation for a larger library. His donation required that the townspeople raise an equal amount. With this money, The South Coventry Library Association was formed and opened on April 4, 1880.

In 1911, Henry Dimock of Coventry offered the Association $40,000 if the library changed its name, “in perpetuation of the memory of my grandfather the Reverend Chauncey Booth, long pastor of the Congregational Church in South Coventry, and of my father Dr. Timothy Dimock, who was born in South Coventry and there practiced as a physician during his long and useful life.” The South Coventry Library Association became The Booth & Dimock Memorial Library on May 20, 1911. The present building opened on October 24, 1913.

In 1968 The Booth & Dimock Memorial Library was