The Navarre Library is the community library of
Navarre, Florida.
The library is part of the
Santa Rosa County Library System based out of
Milton, Florida
Milton is a city and county seat of Santa Rosa County, Florida, Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. It is located within the Pensacola metropolitan area. The city was first Incorporated in 1844, however certain areas such as East Milton, ...
.
The branch is the primary provider of library services and book lending in Navarre, the third-largest community in the
Florida Panhandle
The Florida panhandle (also known as West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida. It is a Salient (geography), salient roughly long, bordered by Alabama on the west and north, Georgia (U.S. state ...
, only smaller than
Pensacola
Pensacola ( ) is a city in the Florida panhandle in the United States. It is the county seat and only city in Escambia County. The population was 54,312 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Pensacola metropolitan area, which ha ...
and
Tallahassee
Tallahassee ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of and the only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2024, the est ...
.
History
The library was founded as an independent volunteer-run library after the county stopped
bookmobile
A bookmobile, or mobile library, is a vehicle designed for use as a library. They have been known by many names throughout history, including traveling library, library wagon, book wagon, book truck, library-on-wheels, and book auto service. Boo ...
services in the 1980s. The library was eventually merged into the
West Florida Public Libraries System, before leaving the system in 2006 with the other
Santa Rosa County library branches to create the
Santa Rosa County Library System.
The current building was built at its current location in the 1990s. Navarre Library has been renovated and updated several times since that point in time.
See also
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Navarre, Florida
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Santa Rosa County, Florida
Santa Rosa County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2020, the population was 188,000. The county seat is Milton, which lies in the geographic center of the county. Other major communities withi ...
Santa Rosa County Library System Website
References
Public libraries in Florida
Navarre, Florida
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