About the Library

The following is an excerpt from minutes of the City Commission of Madison for June 6, 1906.

 
“Be it resolved by the city council of the City of Madison, S.D.  That said city of Madison, S.D. accept the ten thousand dollars offered by Mr. Andrew Carnegie for a free public library building in the City of Madison, South Dakota...Be it further resolved that the sincere and heartfelt thanks of this council and the citizens of Madison, be extended to Mr. Andrew Carnegie for the magnificent gift which  he so liberally bestows upon said city.”