10/31/2026
Did you know?
A newspaper article in the Houston Post Newspaper mentions a Navasota Library as early as 1937. Another newspaper article mentions a Navasota Library existed in 1951.
The Grimes County Library on Brewer Street was built in 1963. The books were crammed into a 2,200 square foot building.
Then In 1979 the City of Navasota deeded a 4 acre tract of land formerly known as the Navasota Public School to the Grimes County Library Association (a Non-Profit Corporation) for "the purposes of maintaining a public library" on December 10, 1979.
In 1983 the library received a $200,000 grant from the Library Services and Construction Act to construct a new library. A fundraising campaign was conducted to raise money for the matching grant. The new library opened in January of 1986 at 1411 E. Washington Ave.
Then in 1984 Charles A and Betty Sue Ketchum sold two lots in the Park Meadows Subdivision in Section 4 to the Grimes County Library Association (a Non-Profit Corporation) on May 18, 1984.
Then in 1986 the Grimes County Library Association sold that same 4 acre tract formerly known as the Navasota Public School, Lot 4, Block 87 of the H&TCRR Survey back to the City of Navasota and the Mayor Artie Fultz Davis on March 26, 1986.
Then in 1988 the Grimes County Library Association sold the two lots in the Park Meadows subdivision to the City of Navasota on March 18, 1988.
