West Library ???????????

[Donald Galt]

On 5 Sep 00, at 11:36, Jim Holland wrote:

>  Glad you saved your maps while growing *mature!*  

Honey, I may be seasoned, but I ain't *that* seasoned!

> Guess that *West--Library* is in the right place with the wrong
> name 

If ever there was a village of that name it would appear to have been 
strung along the road southward from the foot of Cape May. The 
1876 atlas shows a school at that location. No libraries, though, 
east or west.

In some cities, a "liberty" was the area just outside the city 
boundary, not subject to its ordinances. Liberty Street in Cincinnati 
marks the old municipal boundary in this way. It's not completely 
impossible that West Liberty could have taken its name thus, but I 
think it highly unlikely. According to a brochure published by the 
Western Penna Hist Soc, Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh is simply a 
"salute to the settlers' love of freedom."

Don