Chappell Hill Circulating Library

03/28/2026

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📚✨ The Chappell Hill Circulating Library is open for tours!
Come explore one of Texas’ oldest and most charming historic libraries.

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01/23/2025

Over the years the building wore down and was damaged. By 1964, its columns were collapsing. Descendents of the original members of the Circulating Library Association decided that it should be saved and formed the Chappell Hill Historical Society. They ran a number of fundraisers, the largest being the Antique Show, held during the overlap between National Library Week and one of the Bluebonnet trail Weekends, and thus the Bluebonnet festival was born. That year they were able to restore the library, and to their delight, discovered that the collection was intact! The Historical Society continues to work to preserve the library, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1985.

Chappell Hill remains one of the best historical preserved towns in Texas. In 1997, the Texas Legislature designated the Chappell Hill Bluebonnet Festival as the "Official "Bluebonnet Festival of Texas." In 2023, the Historical Society registered that name with the State of Texas.

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01/16/2025

When the Chappell Hill female College closed down in 1912, they donated many of their books to the new public library. Some of them bear the name of the "Philomathean Society," one of the two literary societies on the college campus.

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