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Abstract The Berea Community Collection is comprised of archival materials collected by college librarians as a part of the Berea City Vertical Files. This collection, with its wealth of local history, was removed from the vertical files in order to further preserve and arrange the materials as a working collection.      Background information and local history have been preserved in the form of business ledgers, organizational minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, audio recorded...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains information about the Berea area and its inhabitants. Included in the series is correspondence concerning the 7th Kentucky Infantry in the Battle of Big Hill; papers and letters of the Elder family, 1810-1907; a transcript of correspondence between President Frost and Cash Rawlings discussing local history and folklore in the 1890s; and a transcript of biographical sketch of Samuel E. Welch (b.1861), a prominent Berea citizen, builder of Welch's Department Stores and...

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Correspondence and papers concerning Berea College and town interaction and interests in a variety of areas including: municipal streets; parks and recreation; postal service; public schools; rail service; and water works. Materials are from the Berea College presidencies of William Goodell Frost (1892-1920), William J. Hutchins (1920-1939), and Francis Hutchins (1939-1967)

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains information about the Berea area and its inhabitants. Included in the series is correspondence concerning the 7th Kentucky Infantry in the Battle of Big Hill; papers and letters of the Elder family, 1810-1907; a transcript of correspondence between President Frost and Cash Rawlings discussing local history and folklore in the 1890s; and a transcript of biographical sketch of Samuel E. Welch (b.1861), a prominent Berea citizen, builder of Welch's Department Stores and...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence and papers concerning Berea College and town interaction and interests in a variety of areas including: municipal streets; parks and recreation; postal service; public schools; rail service; and water works. Materials are from the Berea College presidencies of William Goodell Frost (1892-1920), William J. Hutchins (1920-1939), and Francis Hutchins (1939-1967)

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Transcript of correspondence between President Frost and Cash Rawlings discussing local history and folklore in the 1890s

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Correspondence and papers concerning Berea College and town interaction and interests in a variety of areas including: municipal streets; parks and recreation; postal service; public schools; rail service; and water works. Materials are from the Berea College presidencies of William Goodell Frost (1892-1920), William J. Hutchins (1920-1939), and Francis Hutchins (1939-1967)

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transcript of biographical sketch of Samuel E. Welch (b.1861), a prominent Berea citizen, builder of Welch's Department Stores and first President of Berea National Bank

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Includes records regarding Highway 25 (Dixie Highway)

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Memories of living in Berea in the 1920s