Berea (Ky.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:
Berea Cemetery Association Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0170 HC 66
Abstract
After agitating the question of the need to organize a cemetery association and holding preliminary meetings led by Reverend E. H. Fairchild and A.A. Wright, the Berea community organized the Berea Cemetery Association in 1872. The preliminary meetings resulted in the adoption of a constitution, the enrollment of nearly thirty subscribers to the Constitution, and an initiation fee for membership of $2.00. The first election under the Constitution was held in the Fall of 1872 and resulted...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1872-1996
Berea city maps, 1959-1978
File — Box 03: Series 3, Folder: 13
Identifier: 9702 #1
Scope and Contents
Three printed maps: 1959 map of Berea, Kentucky showing precincts and voting places. Kentucky Departent of Economic Development, distributed by Berea Chamber of Commerce, Berea City Council, and The Berea Citizen; 1970 map of Berea. Kentucky Department of Highways, distributed by Berea Chamber of Commerce and The Berea Citizen; 1978 map of Berea. Kentucky Department of Transportation, compliments of Boone Tavern (6 copies). [Former designation: Map case 1, drawer 4,...
Dates:
1959-1978
Berea City Ordinances
Digital Record
Identifier: Berea City Ordinances
Berea City Records
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0180 HC 05
Abstract
The Village of Berea was incorporated as a 6th class city on May 9, 1890, at a meeting held in the office of the treasurer of Berea College, P.D. Dodge. The location suggests that the College community initiated the creation of a formal government structure for the town. Berea was governed by a five-man Board of Trustees until 1909, when it became a 5th class city and was therefore entitled to have a mayor. During the period covered by the ledger, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1890-1916
Berea City Trustees' Minutes (May 1890- Aug 1908)
Digital Record
Identifier: Berea City Trustees' Minutes (May 1890- Aug 1908)
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1890-1908
Berea City Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0255
Abstract
This collection of materials with different provenance was assembled and organized by Hutchins Library and Special Collections staff. The collection contains a variety of materials on a number of subjects and documents the history, events, and lives of citizens of Berea, Kentucky.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1950 - 1995
Berea College 1973-1975 Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
Berea College 1973 Appalachian Oral History Project Collection (January Short Term)
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.03
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of audio recorded interviews conducted by Berea College students as part of a January 1973 short term History 190 course taught by Dr. Richard Drake.
Listen To Interviews
Interviewees Are:
Bethel Cornette Interview re: Moonshining January 1973
Bill Woods Interview re:...
Dates:
Other: 1973
Berea College 1986 Master Plan
Collection — Items 1-5
Identifier: RG 10-10.38
Abstract
The 1986 Master Plan was the result of a planning effort approved at the Spring 1986 meeting of the Berea College Board of Trustees. The intended outputs of the planning efforts and new master plan for Berea College were to: (1) plan for the use of outlying college property; (2) describe a development plan for the Boone Tavern area; and (3) outline the desired image recommended for Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1986
Berea College 1992 Master Plan
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.37
Abstract
The 1992 Berea College Master Plan provided a framework for long-term planning and promoted effective coordination of campus development decisions by illustrating how campus systems - development patterns, open space and pedestrian circulation, and vehicular circulation and parking - related to one another. This comprehensive perspective was meant to be applied in the implementation of each individual building and/or improvement project undertaken at Berea College.
Many of the records in...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1991-1993