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Welcome to the DeFuniak Springs Home page. The DeFuniak Springs Home page provides as much information as possible on DeFuniak Springs. Knowing DeFuniak Springs’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within DeFuniak Springs’s Home page, you will also find DeFuniak Springs’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

DeFuniak Springs has a population of 6696. 47.3% of DeFuniak Springs’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.7 are female. 39.5% of DeFuniak Springs is married and 54.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $125,338, and the average rent is $738. Household median income in DeFuniak Springs is $49,663, and the individual median income is $26,903. DeFuniak Springs’s Ethnic is the following: White(66.3%), Black(25%), Multiple(6.5%), Hispanic(2.2%), Other(1.5%), Native(0.7%).


At the time of planning, the founders of DeFuniak Springs were interested in the adult education movement. For DeFuniak Springs, this movement did not only include the Chautauqua center, McCormick University and Academy, and the State Normal School, but also a community library. In 1887, a group of women formed the Ladies Library Association and their goal was to establish a library that would become the "little sister" to the Chautauqua center, university, and school.


The Ladies Library Association chose a plot of land adjacent to the Chautauqua center and signed a lease for ninety-nine years. By the end of 1887, five years after the initial plan of the village, there was a community library. The Ladies Library Association's main goal of establishing a social library was complete.


Initially, the library relied on book donations, but also purchased books from the Ladies Reading Club and a private book owner, J. L. Shearer. The Ladies Library Association persisted and was able to maintain the library, books, and maintenance of the library for quite some time. However, by 1923, the Ladies Library Association was unable to continue to sustain the library and requested city funds, which the city took on gradually.


It was not until the 1960s when the subscription fees were finally eliminated and the county and city assumed total responsibility for its maintenance and collection development. Today, the Walton-DeFuniak Library remains in use just as it did when it opened in 1887.


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