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Schultz discusses the history of the bookmobile in North Carolina. In the late 1880s, Dr. Charles Hallet Wing retired from MIT and moved to Mitchell County. He later opened a free school and a 12,000 volume library. Wing kept around six dozen of his books in constant rotation through Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey counties. This circulation helped to pioneer the bookmobile movement. The state received its first official bookmobile in Durham in 1923, and by 1956, there were 101 bookmobiles operating in 94 counties. Over 100 years after the movement began, bookmobiles continue their task of bringing books to North Carolinians.
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10648
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The retirement home of Prof. Charles Halleck Wing, a unique two-story, six room house with no inside stairway, has been moved to Gouge's Creek from its original location in the Ledger Community of Mitchell County. Prof. Wing, a native of Brighton, MA, served as a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is credited with establishing bookmobile services for libraries. Prof. Wing also established a free school and the Good Will Free Library containing some 12,000 volumes, a considerable amount of books for a small rural community like Ledger in the 1880s.
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14800
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Rockingham County Library initiated the Bookmobile program to serve rural citizens without access to public libraries. In 1930, Mrs. B Frank Mebane and other active citizens organized the Rockingham County Library in Leaksville. The library purchased a van that traveled to 120 different stops in Rockingham County. Inspired by this example, in 1943 all counties operated a bookmobile system.
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17541
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The first bookmobile in the state was in service in July 1936 and in 1939, that number increased to 29. Bookmobiles were purchased by the North Carolina Library Commission, the Works Progress Administration and some were donated, but each served the same purpose of distributing reading material to rural areas without ready access to public libraries.
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