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Berea College

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Pine Mountain (Kentucky) Community Study Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0023 SAA 022
Abstract The study was proposed in 1949 by Berea College president, Francis S. Hutchins, then a trustee of Pine Mountain Settlement School. The school's boarding high school had closed that year and elementary programs merged with the Harlan County school system. It was concluded that a socio-economic study of the area would be useful in identifying possible new areas of service for the school to pursue.  Giffin's study was never published in its entirety, though he did use data from the study to...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-1965

Pine Mountain Settlement School Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0011 SAA 010
Abstract Pine Mountain Settlement School was founded in 1913, by Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long. The two women received ninety-five acres of land from William Creech for the purpose of providing educational opportunities for the people of the Pine Mountain area of Harlan County, Kentucky. Petit and de Long modeled their program after Jane Adam’s Hull House in Chicago. They hoped that their modern ideas about health, nutrition, work efficiency, farm management, and the cultural value of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-2011

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Education, Rural -- Kentucky. 1
Harlan County (Ky.) -- History. 1
Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 1
Public Health -- Kentucky. 1
Trachoma. 1