PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT

This growing digital record provides an in-depth look at the history of Pine Mountain Settlement School. Located in Harlan County, Kentucky, the School was founded in 1913 by Katherine Pettit, Ethel de Long [Zande], William Creech, and the surrounding Pine Mountain Community. The on-site physical archive is comprised of one-hundred-ten (110) years of institutional records, publications, photographs, in-depth biographical records, as well as historic buildings, furniture and crafts. It is one of the largest on-site archives documenting the rural settlement school movement in Appalachia... The Vision of the Pine Mountain Settlement School Archive is to provide a voice that will encourage transformations in individual relationships with the cultures of the Appalachian region. By providing easy access to a unique and extensive body of archival material about the region, the Pine Mountain Settlement School offers an opportunity for an in-depth exploration of one of the earliest rural..