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Sewickley Public Library, older than every Carnegie branch
Sewickley, Pennsylvania
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Allegheny County's oldest library has been lending books in Sewickley since 1873, sixteen years before Andrew Carnegie put up his first American library in Braddock. It serves the whole Quaker Valley school district from Broad Street and holds more than 90,000 titles.
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