North Carolina Room Receives $4,000 Donation GRANVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: The North Carolina Room at the Richard H. Thornton Library recently received a $4,000 donation from an anonymous donor via the Friends of the Library. This is the largest single donation received by the North Carolina room during the sixteen-year tenure of North Carolina Room Specialist Mark Pace. The donor grew up in Oxford and has longstanding ties to Granville County but gave the donation on the condition of anonymity.

The donation will be utilized for a currently unfunded area of need for the North Carolina Room. This could include the purchase of archival storage boxes, a genealogical book series, or other equipment or maintenance needs in lieu of taxpayer dollars.

Resources in the North Carolina Room include county histories like Census records for Granville and surrounding counties, archives of the Oxford Public Ledger and Butner-Creedmoor News, minutes from court proceedings, marriage certificates, deeds, family genealogical histories, and church histories. The North Carolina Room is located at the Richard H. Thornton Library, 210 Main Street, Oxford. More information is available on the Granville County Library System website: www.granvillecounty.org/438/NC-Genealogy-Room

The Friends of the Library is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to the support of the Granville County Library System, including the development and growth of library resources, services and facilities. More information about supporting the Library System through the Friends of the Library is available on the Granville County Library System website: www.granvillecounty.org/431/Friends-of-the-Library

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