Fulda Public Library

The Fulda Reading Club became an organization in 1898 and shortly thereafter established an informal library in Fulda. The books were first kept on a shelf in the Andersen Variety Store. In 1918, a committee met with the village council to request funds for operation of the library and Fulda has provided funds ever since. The collection of about 200 books was later moved to the King and Wilson Drug store. Since funds were limited, the Reading Club planned numerous money-raising activities such as card parties, benefit movies and even sold a book of the favorite quotations of the people of Fulda. Around this time the first paid librarian was hired for Saturday afternoons and was paid $5 per month.

The book collection had several temporary homes until the library was moved to a more permanent location in the Joseph King home. The home was purchased by Laura Coburn, former Reading Club member, and remodeled into the Coburn Memorial Library. By the mid-1960s the city began to look for a more suitable, spacious and conveniently located building to house the library. On April 14, 1970 the new library building opened on the corner of St. Paul Avenue and Third Street, across from City Hall. The library then became known as Fulda Memorial Library and became a member of the Plum Creek Library System in 1975. The Friends of the Fulda Memorial Library group was formed in 1997 with the purpose of raising funds to expand the current library building. Construction on the library expansion project began in March of 2002 and the grand re-opening was held on September 23, 2002. With the completion of the project, the library almost doubled in size and was made handicap-accessible.