Disturbing history revealed

With the Sweetwater County Library’s history it’s no wonder why many residents, employees and former employees believe that it is haunted. 

The library, located at 300 N. 1st East used to be a cemetery, which was established the city in 1892.

The site remained a cemetery until 1926, when a federal CWA project moved the bodies and old grave markers to the Riverview Cemetery, which was just up the hill and still remains as the cemetery today.

Sweetwater County Library reference librarian Micki Gilmore said when the gravesite were moved coffins were lined up all along the hill. Stacks upo...

 

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