Ballard Commons Park | |
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Location | Ballard, Seattle, Washington, United States |
Coordinates | 47°40′14″N122°23′8″W / 47.67056°N 122.38556°W |
Ballard Commons Park is a public park in Ballard, Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Following the December 2021 clearing of a large encampment, [1] the park reopened in March 2023. [2] [3]
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The Ballard Carnegie Library is a historic Carnegie library in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. The institution was preceded by a freeholders' library in the 1860s, which was eventually replaced in 1901 by a reading room organized and funded by a women's group. Various funds including a $15,000 grant were used to create a new library for Ballard, then an independent city. The library opened to the public on June 24, 1904. It was the first major branch of the Seattle public library system after Ballard was annexed by Seattle in 1907, and also employed one of the first African American librarians in Seattle.
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