The Freeport Memorial Library is one of Nassau County's largest public libraries. The library was founded in 1884 as part of the school system, granted a provisional charter by the state Board of Regents in 1895, and a permanent charter on December 21, 1899. In 1911 it was moved from a school building to a rented room in the Miller Building on South Grove Street. At that time it was a membership library: members paid ten cents for a card and were permitted to borrow two books at a time, one fiction and one nonfiction. A drive was started in 1920 to construct a library building. The resulting library at the corner of Merrick Road and Ocean Avenue, a
Beaux Arts building designed by architect
Charles M. Hart, opened on
Memorial Day, 1924. A year later it was renamed Freeport Memorial Library. In 1928, a tablet was erected with the names of Freeport's war dead from the
American Civil War,
Spanish–American War, and World War I. == Service area ==