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Current Hull Public Library opened in 1913 with 5,072 books

► The building was originally the summer home of Irish poet, journalist, and rebel John Boyle O’Reilly, who died there in 1890 of an apparent overdose of sleeping medicine.

► The body of a British soldier who died in 1775 after a skirmish at Boston Light is buried somewhere on the property.

► The “Camperdown Elm” in the front yard probably was planted in the late 1800s, and is a descendant of trees grown on the estate of the Earl of Camperdown in Scotland.

SOURCES: Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners; Hull Public Library