Details for Maids and Matrons Club
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5445003186
Data
| Marker Number | 3186 |
| Atlas Number | 5445003186 |
| Marker Title | Maids and Matrons Club |
| Index Entry | Maids and Matrons Club |
| Address | 301 W. Tate St. |
| City | Brownfield |
| County | Terry |
| UTM Zone | 13 |
| UTM Easting | 753840 |
| UTM Northing | 3674225 |
| Subject Codes | fraternal organizations; women, women's history topics; libraries; women's clubs |
| Marker Year | 1990 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Kendrick Memorial Library, NW corner W. Tate and S. 3rd streets. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | In 1906, three years after the founding of Brownfield, eleven women gathered together to form a club. Named Maids and Matrons, the club became primarily a study group in 1907, and the members founded the town's first library that year. Affiliated with the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs in 1915, the club continued to operate the library and supported numerous civic causes. When the Kendrick Memorial County Library was organized in 1957, the club donated their entire 3,000-volume collection of books to form the nucleus of the institution's holdings. |