Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Pine Mountain (Kentucky) Community Study Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0023 SAA 022
Abstract
The study was proposed in 1949 by Berea College president, Francis S. Hutchins, then a trustee of Pine Mountain Settlement School. The school's boarding high school had closed that year and elementary programs merged with the Harlan County school system. It was concluded that a socio-economic study of the area would be useful in identifying possible new areas of service for the school to pursue. Giffin's study was never published in its entirety, though he did use data from the study to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-1965
Pine Mountain Settlement School Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0042 SAA 042
Abstract
Kentuckian Katherine Pettit and Smith College Graduate Ethel DeLong finalized the incorporation of Pine Mountain Settlement School (Harland County, Kentucky) in 1913. Land for the school was donated by William and Sally Dixon Creech, early settlers who wanted wider educational opportunities for area children. Katherine Pettit had helped found Hindman Settlement School in 1902. As stated in its Article of Incorporation, the purpose of Pine Mountain Settlement School was to provide an...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-1984