Harlan County (Ky.) -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Harlan County Struggle Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0060 SAA 060
Abstract
Harlan County, Kentucky is known for two things: bituminous coal and Bloody Harlan. During the big coal boom in the early 1900s, Harlan County was amongst the largest contributors. Herndon J. Evans, the editor of the Pineville Sun, argued,
The troubles of the coal industry had their inception in war times. Huge profits were held out to those who had little capital and a good lease. Wages ranged as high as $25 a day in some instances. Men flocked to the coal...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1932
Helen Dingman Papers
Collection — 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
Katherine Pettit Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0012 SAA 011
Abstract
Papers and records of Katherine Pettit.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1937
Pine Mountain Settlement School Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0011 SAA 010
Abstract
Pine Mountain Settlement School was founded in 1913, by Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long. The two women received ninety-five acres of land from William Creech for the purpose of providing educational opportunities for the people of the Pine Mountain area of Harlan County, Kentucky.
Petit and de Long modeled their program after Jane Adam’s Hull House in Chicago. They hoped that their modern ideas about health, nutrition, work efficiency, farm management, and the cultural value of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-2011
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
Red Bird Mission Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0044 SAA 044
Abstract
The Board of Missions of the mid-western based Evangelical Church began considering the eastern Kentucky’s Red Bird River region for a home mission project in 1919. On the recommendation of Rev. William Buyers, a Presbyterian minister from Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky, a Board appointed committee visited the area and found that residents were receptive to the idea of a mission. The first Mission worship service was held in a tiny schoolhouse at Beverly in Bell County on May 29, 1921. The...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1920-1985