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Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.22
Scope and Contents
Records of the Berea College Utilitilies Department inlcuding Waterworks and Heat and Power.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1902-2005
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0181-HC 06
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1810 - 1964
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.23
Scope and Contents
A monthly "religious paper representing Evangelical Christianity, as opposed to all divisions among Christians, and as inconsistent with all oath-bound secret combinations and oll other forms of evil, whether popular or otherwise." Edited by Elders John G. Fee and J.F. Browne, Berea, Kentucky, and H.H. Hinman, Washington, D.C.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1885-1887
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0202-HC 27
Abstract
Founded on April 5, 1970, Berea Friends Meeting is a monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Berea, Kentucky. Berea Friends meeting is affiliated with Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Friends General Conference.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968 - 2016
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0169 HC 65
Abstract
The Berea Garden Club of Berea, Kentucky, was organized in 1973. The club would develop into an organization sponsoring a variety of events and programs including talks by gardening specialists and enthusiasts, community garden and flower shows, and garden tours.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1984
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0224 HC 49
Abstract
The Berea Interfaith Task Force for Peace was founded in 1981 as a grassroots organization of volunteers from various faith traditions sharing a commitment to peacemaking and social justice issues. To this end, the group has focused its peacemaking efforts on the problems of the nuclear arms race, conflicts in Central America, and the local problem of nerve gas stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County. The group also organized the Mountain Refugee Project in the late 1980’s...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1976-1983
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.32
Abstract
The Berea Publishing Company (one time publisher of the Berea Citizen) was incorporated in the state of Kentucky on November 18th, 1904. The three original stokeholders were Louis Hinman, William G. Frost, and B.E. Cartmell, all of Berea. The first President of the corporation was William G. Frost.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-1954
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.12
Scope and Contents
Records and communications regarding the origin of the name Berea.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1939
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0192 HC 17
Abstract
Berea Women’s Club was organized on June 19, 1919 at the Berea Baptist Church by a group of women from the Berea community. The purpose of the organization “was to bring together women of this area of Madison County for mutual counsel and helpfulness and create a united effort for the welfare of the community while contributing to the best interests of humanity as a whole” (Engle, F. 2011 January 1. The Berea Women’s Club and the Echo Club, The Richmond...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-2008
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0193 HC 18
Abstract
Organized and federated in 1948 by Mrs. Bernice Robbins and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Jennings, the Younger Woman's Club of Berea was so named to designate it as the youngest of the three women’s clubs in Berea. Its founders and charter members recognized a need for women to share their talents and concerns, and to contribute to their community.
The Club is affiliated with the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs and the General (National) Federation of Women's Clubs with the purpose of working...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948 - 1994; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1990
