With insurance money and help from Works Progress Administration workers during the New Deal, a third city hall, constructed with limestone from the area, was built between 1935-1940. Belleview was just a year old when the first library group was formed by Professor George Gary Bush. He located the site of the current library building and had books in his home for public use until the building was completed. Twice fire destroyed all of the books except those on loan. The group raised $500 in order to purchase a site. The library was also located in the offices of the Belleview Blade and later in the lobby of the Belleview Hotel, paying $3.75 a month rent. Two lots were donated by the Marion Land and Improvement Company and the land fenced until construction could begin. W.W. Cole did the original masonry work for $25. The library was completed and dedicated on March 19, 1908. The Belleview Library still stands today as the second oldest library building in the state of Florida. That building serving as the lobby of the expanded library today. The Blade was among the earliest newspapers in Belleview. Its editor was George P.E. Hart. Later newspapers included the Belleview Newsletter, the Belleview News and the Voice of South Marion. The first Belleview Grammar School was a large two-room building complete with bell tower. Prior to that, classes were held in the city hall building. In 1913, a Miss Callie was the teacher for the primary grades and a Professor Rickards, who was also a surveyor for the Atlantic Coast Line Railway from Ocala to Leesburg, taught the older students. A growing population prompted a move back into city hall for some classes. But, in 1926, a new five-room school building was built. The old school was dismantled and reassembled as the Santos School for black students; that building still stands. The present city hall was the site of the third school built in 1926 of Spanish design. It housed grades one through 12. By the early 1950s, only grades one through eight attended school in Belleview, the older students took a bus to Ocala or Summerfield to attend high school. The present Belleview Elementary School was built in 1962 on 15 acres donated by Sham Sani, President of Belleview Heights Inc. The city purchased the site of the old school in 1963, and converted it into a city hall building. But by 1974, continued population growth forced some classes back into the city hall building. The new high school and middle school were built in the early 1990s and are among the best facilities in Marion County, even with the portable classrooms necessary to handle the ever-expanding population.