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Annville Institute Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0043 SAA 043
Abstract
Annville Institute was an early outgrowth of the work begun in Jackson County, Kentucky, by the Women’s’ Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church of America. In 1900, New York based missionaries, Cora A. Smith and Nora Gaut chose Mckee as the site of the first RCA Mission in Kentucky. By 1909, a Church and school had been established at Mckee and several Sunday schools elsewhere in the County. Rev. Issac Messler, Superintendent of RCA Kentucky work, had purchased a 75 acre tract...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1980
Buckhorn Children's Center Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0045-SAA 045
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs and microfilmed records documenting the establishment and operation of Buckhorn Children's Center and its predecessor institutions, Witherspoon College and Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency, located in Perry County, Ky. Selected Records 1874-1979; Selected Photographs 1900-1980.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1874-1980
Extension Services Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.45
Abstract
Berea College's Extension Services provided short-term, informal educational programming and services, primarily in adult education, both on and off campus, to persons living in communities around Berea (including the mountain regions as far away as West Virginia). Programming included Opportunity Schools (held both on campus and in other communities), lectures, and the publication of pamphlets, bulletins and leaflets on a variety of topics.
Information regarding the Berea Opportunity...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1898-1958
Hazel Green Academy Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0249 SAA 038
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1886-1982
Helen Dingman Papers
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0026 SAA 025
Abstract
Diaries, correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs mainly documenting Helen Dingman's community organizing and educational efforts in Harlan County, Kentucky during the early 1900s.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1945
Henderson Settlement School Records, 1925-1984
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0049 SAA 049
Abstract
Methodist minister, Hiram Frakes, founded Henderson Settlement in 1925, chiefly as a community center and educational institution. It is located in southern Bell County, Kentucky, a few miles northeast of Jellico, Tennessee. The area was quite isolated at the time and had come to be known locally as “South America.”
Frakes, was educated in Kansas and southern Indiana and before becoming a miniser, had worked as a telegraph operator for the Santa Fe Railroad. A chance hearing of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925 - 1984
Hindman Settlement School Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0041 SAA 041
Abstract
Hindman Settlement School traces its origins to education – recreation programs conducted in Knott and Perry counties, Kentucky by Katherine Pettit and May Stone during the summers of 1899-1901. They were funded by the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs and were aided by a group of women from urban areas. Programs were held in Hazard-1899 (Camp Cedar Grove), Hindman-1900 (Camp Industrial), and Sassafras in Knott County-1901. Working in large tents, they offered classes in sewing, cooking,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1979
J.O. Van Hook Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.51
Abstract
Joseph O. Van Hook was raised in Pulaski County, Kentucky and began teaching in a one-room school house in 1909. He came to Berea in 1910 and earned two diplomas from the Normal School. He served as an Army corporal during World War I and spent four years following the war teaching in China at the Shanghai American School (1921-1925). He then returned to Berea College, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees by 1926. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855 - 1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1958
News Bureau Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.23VF
Abstract
News releases, articles and write ups of the Berea College News Bureau.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1965-1979
Oneida Baptist Institute Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0048 SAA 048
Abstract
Oneida Baptist Institute in Clay County, Kentucky was founded by James Anderson Burns, a participant in the deadly feuding activity that plagued Clay County in the early 1900s. In his 1928 autobiography, The Crucible, Burns tells of how his participation ended when he was left for dead after a gun battle. He escaped to a mountain-top where he stayed for three days and underwent a transformation, finding that his “…urge for vengeance was gone.”
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1906-1983