Perry County (Ky.).
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Buckhorn Children's Center records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0045-SAA 045
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs and microfilmed records documenting the establishment and operation of Buckhorn Children's Center and its predecessor institutions, Witherspoon College and Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency, located in Perry County, Ky. Selected Records 1874-1979; Selected Photographs 1900-1980.
Dates:
1874 - 1980
Buckhorn, Kentucky
File — Box 30: Series Series 2; Series Series 3
Identifier: Series 2
Content Description
The second folder contains a copy of a February 2026 draft of Eric Schonblom's forthcoming book: A Pictorial History of Buckhorn, Kentucky 1950-2000.
Dates:
1900 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2010
E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0021-SAA 020
Abstract
The E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund was incorporated June 27, 1922, by Edward O. Robinson, Frederick W. Mowbray, Edward C. O'Rear, and W.H. Hyden. That year Robinson had retired from the presidency of the Mowbray-Robinson Lumber Company in Cincinnati, where he had made a fortune in the World War I lumber boom.
Robinson and Mowbray entered the lumber business in 1908 with the purchase of approximately 16,000 acres of timberland in eastern Kentucky's Breathitt, Knott, and Perry counties. ...
Dates:
1922 - 1988
Hazard, Kentucky
File — Box 106: Series Series 8
Identifier: Series 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Dates:
1900 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2010