Monterey Branch Library

The Monterey Branch Library is located adjacent to the Historic Standing Stone monument in Whittaker Park. Library Employee Dean Phillips did the original quilt pattern. The branch library opened up in a newly built building in 1997. The building was doubled in size ten years later, in 2007. The Monterey Branch continues to be the most used branch library in the county, with more numbers than all the other branches combined. Because of its location, Monterey Branch Library draws patrons not only from the eastern end of Putnam Couny, but from adjoing counties, including Overton, Fentress, Cumberland and White.