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Berea (Ky.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

Berea Evangelist

 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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Berea Friends (Quakers) Collection

 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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Berea Garden Club Collection

 Collection — 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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Berea Interfaith Task Force For Peace Collection

 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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

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
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

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