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Berea (Ky.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:

Berea, Kentucky Sanborn map, 1922

 File — Map case 2, drawer 1, Folder: 9273/1
Content Description From the Collection: The assemblage of maps in this collection conveys visual information about the geography, geology, and topography of the United States, its natural resources, political subdivisions, and transportation routes that were developed during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the maps in the collection were originally gathered and utilized by the Berea College Geology Department. Others were collected by the college Library as part of the Weatherford-Hammond Mountain Collection. The...
Dates: 1922

Berea, Kentucky telephone company financial ledger, 1897 - 1906

 Item — Box 1a: Series 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1
Abstract

This resource is a financial ledger used by a telephone company that served the Berea, Kentucky area in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The service provider may have been known as "Berea Pt L and L Tel Co." Accounts noted within include Berea College, local businesses, and individual residences.

Dates: 1897 - 1906

Berea Publishing Company

 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

Berea Quadrangle Map, Geographical Survey, 1952

 File — Map case 2, drawer 5, Folder: 9495/2
Identifier: 9495/2
Content Description From the Collection: The assemblage of maps in this collection conveys visual information about the geography, geology, and topography of the United States, its natural resources, political subdivisions, and transportation routes that were developed during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the maps in the collection were originally gathered and utilized by the Berea College Geology Department. Others were collected by the college Library as part of the Weatherford-Hammond Mountain Collection. The...
Dates: 1952

Berea Town/City Naming

 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

Berea Women's Club Collection

 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

Berea Younger Woman's Club Collection

 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

Berea/Richmond and Beyond Unidentified WWI Era Photograph Album

 Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0235 HC 60
Abstract The album is, unfortunately, unidentified at present.  Although most photographs are “labeled” with personal notes, some with names, there is no indication of the name of the owner, specific dates, or full names of most people pictured.  However, photographs clearly show a female student who attended both the Berea Academy and the Teacher’s College in Richmond, spent time serving in Europe during WWI, followed by what can be assumed as time teaching in Pennsylvania.  The clothing and other...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1916-1919

Blount County Black History Project -Then and Now as Told by Those Who Lived It

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0157
Abstract Charles Pride, Dorothy Kincaid, and Jo Davenport formed CDJ Media Productions to conduct and record interviews with black Blount County residents who helped shape the community during and after the integration of the schools in 1969. Their idea for collecting interviews was formed in 2007 when they identified an urgency to preserve, in an accurate and positive way, Blount County’s rich black history. Their work resulted in “Blount County’s Black History — As Told by Those Who Lived It — Then...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959 - 2015; Other: Majority of material found in 2007-2015

Boone Tavern Hotel

 Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.04
Abstract Historic Boone Tavern was built in 1909 at the suggestion of Nellie Frost, wife of Berea College president, William G. Frost. Named for Appalachian hero Daniel Boone has hosted visitors of Berea, Kentucky including the Dalai Lama, Henry Ford, President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, and Robert Frost. Construction of Boone Tavern began in 1909 based on designs by the New York architectural firm of Cady & See at a cost of $20,000. The building, made of bricks...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1912-2014