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.