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Jesse Stuart, 1906-1984 Rural Kentucky School Teacher and Writer Kentucky Poet Laureate. One Room School, Atkins, VA. Fairfield School, Jackson County, North Carolina, c. 1909. Webster School, Jackson County, North Carolina, c. 1910. The building dates from 1900.
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Jesse Stuart, 1906-1984Rural Kentucky School Teacher and WriterKentucky Poet Laureate
Webster School, Jackson County, North Carolina, c. 1910. The building dates from 1900.
Qualla Township Graded School Jackson County, North Carolina (around 1910)
Boys' Home, Sylva Collegiate Institute Jackson County, North Carolina1900 - 1930
First Building of Cullowhee High School or AcademyAbout 1891
Examples of Other Types of Educational InstitutionsIn Appalachia
Christiansburg Institute, est 1866Montgomery County, VAEducation for Freed Slaves
Moonlight School, Morehead, KY, 1910Originally a one room school
The first Berea College Building(http://www.berea.edu/about/history.asp)
Fotched-on Womenby David Whisnant • Women reformers who came from outside the region beginning in the 1890s to found and work in educational, cultural, medical, recreational, and religious programs and institutions • Artificial, inferior, culturally incongruent
Blab Schoolsby Loyal Jones • Blab Schools –students studied lessons by blabbing or repeating lessons – Children read, spelled and ciphered ‘out loud’, partly due to shortage of paper, pencils and slates. “Studied at the top of their voices.”