Freehold Public Library

[1] Serving a population of 11,797 residents and with a collection of approximately 26,000 volumes the library has a yearly circulation of circa 28,000 items.

It opened on January 6, 1900, in the Lloyd Building at the corner of West Main and Throckmorton Street with a collection of 500 volumes, but was destroyed by fire in December 1901.

[3] At the annual election of Freehold Township on March 10, 1903, residents voted to support the levy of a library tax.

[3] The King's Daughters raised $2,000 through donations to buy the lot (known as 29½ East Main Street even then) from the widow Doty.

In the summer of 1903 Frederick A. Brower contracted to construct the new library, which cost of $8,874 and opened the following year.