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Hazel Green Academy Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0249 SAA 038

Scope and Contents

This collection contains papers and photographs that document the history and operation of the Hazel Green Academy at Hazel Green in Wolfe County, Kentucky (1886-1982).  Included in the collection are historical studies and publications regarding the academy, principal and director files, advisory board minutes and reports, student handbooks, alumni publications and print matter, and staff and student records. After the Academy's closing in 1982, the original records and photographs were transferred to Berea College.

Dates

  • created: 1886-1982

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Conditions Governing Use

Federal copyright regulations apply.  Records containing student and personnel information may be restricted.

Extent

75.00 ms_boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

W. O. Mize, J. T. Day, and Green Berry Swango founded Hazel Green Academy in 1880. Eventually, administration and financial support were shifted to agencies of the Disciples of Christ (Christian) Church, first under the Christian Women's Board of Missions in 1886, and then under the United Christian Missionary Society in 1919. Formal support from the national church ended in 1971. The Academy was a boarding school throughout its ninety-six years and the curriculum included both college preparatory and vocational courses. A sizable physical plant developed along with fairly extensive land holdings. For a time the Academy maintained its own electric and water systems, hospital and community health clinic, 212-acre demonstration farm, kindergarten, used clothing store, and community library.

Arrangement Note

The collection is arranged in series as follows:

SERIES 1: Historical Studies and Publications

SERIES 2: Director's Files

SERIES 3: Principal's Files

SERIES 4: Personnel Files

SERIES 5: Former Students and Friends Association

SERIES 6: Student Records

Source of Acquisition

Hazel Green Academy

Other Descriptive Information

The records and photographs of the Hazel Green Academy were collected and organized in 1983 by the staff of the Settlement Institutions of Appalachia/Berea College Research Resources Project that was funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.  Those records possessing administrative, legal and historical value were microfilmed by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.   Selected photographs were copied by Project staff in Berea.  All originals were then returned to Hazel Green Academy.  A set of copy negatives and prints and the master microfilm negative are owned by Berea College.

Shortly after the microfilming and photo copying was completed, financial difficulties brought the Academy’s closing in August 1983.  The Hazel Green records that had been copied and much additional material were moved to Hutchins Library and all literary and/or copyrights, were transferred to Berea College.

The records and photographs that were copied are now found in this collection, Hazel Green Academy Collection, 1886-1982, BCA 0249 SAA 038.

Processing Information

The finding aid was in updated in October 2015.

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Archon Finding Aid Title
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
eng

Physical Storage Information

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Berea College Special Collections and Archives Repository

https://libraryguides.berea.edu/archives
Contact:
Hutchins Library
100 Campus Drive
Berea Kentucky 40404 US
859.985.3262

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