Madison County (Ky.)

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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Five copies of a relief map of Indian Fort (near Berea), Madison County, "Explored and Surveyed by W.G. Burroughs." The maps were printed by the Industrial Arts Department of Berea College. "Kentucky Geological Survey Series VI, 1923."

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Map of Kentucky, Richmond Quadrangle, Edition of March 1897, Reprinted 1923

Abstract The Moran family was an early non-native settler of the Silver Creek, Madison, Kentucky area when John Cleveland Moran (1763-1835) and Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann Barnett (1765-1835), along with Barnett’s family members, emigrated to the area from Virginia in the late 1700s. J.C. Moran and Elizabeth Barnett moved to the area with Elizabeth’s mother, Mary Montgomery Barnett (who already had family in Kentucky), and some of Elizabeth’s siblings following the death of Elizabeth’s father Robert...

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...

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Promotional flyers, contact lists, and financial records documenting Second Nature Recycling, a Berea community organization that sought to raise public awareness of the need for a community waste recycling plan.