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Swiss Settlement In Randolph County, West Virginia: A Study Of Land Deals, Policies, And Immigration, Elizabeth Satterfield Apr 2018

Swiss Settlement In Randolph County, West Virginia: A Study Of Land Deals, Policies, And Immigration, Elizabeth Satterfield

Munn Scholars Awards

No abstract provided.


Morehead State To Save $1 Million By Cutting Five Administrative Posts, Linda Blackford Feb 2018

Morehead State To Save $1 Million By Cutting Five Administrative Posts, Linda Blackford

Morehead State College Histories

No abstract provided.


Helen Price Stacy Papers, Helen Price Stacy Feb 2018

Helen Price Stacy Papers, Helen Price Stacy

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.


State Universities - Morehead To Cut Jobs As Financial Reckoning Begins, Linda Blackford Feb 2018

State Universities - Morehead To Cut Jobs As Financial Reckoning Begins, Linda Blackford

Morehead State College Histories

No abstract provided.


'A Slap In The Face': Morehead Laments Plan To Cut Funds - For Kentucky Folk Art Center, Will Wright Jan 2018

'A Slap In The Face': Morehead Laments Plan To Cut Funds - For Kentucky Folk Art Center, Will Wright

Morehead State College Histories

No abstract provided.


Iron Road: The Rise Of Huntington, West Virginia, 1870-1920, Brooks Bryant Jan 2018

Iron Road: The Rise Of Huntington, West Virginia, 1870-1920, Brooks Bryant

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The city of Huntington, West Virginia, did not occur gradually, nor did the city grow organically. Collis P. Huntington’s purchase of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in the winter of 1869 led to the conception of the first new city of a State born out of the Civil War. Collis Huntington specifically chose the future site of Huntington for the terminus of the C&O Railroad to reach areas rich in coal, timber, and agriculture in West Virginia, providing natural resources a way to market. For Collis P. Huntington to profit from shipping natural resources out of West Virginia, he needed …


1890 Journal Of The Seventieth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1890 Journal Of The Seventieth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1891 Minutes Of The Seventy-First Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1891 Minutes Of The Seventy-First Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1892 Minutes Of The Seventy-Second Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1892 Minutes Of The Seventy-Second Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1896 Journal Of The Seventy-Sixth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1896 Journal Of The Seventy-Sixth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1969 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference The Proceedings Of Session One Hundred And Forty-Nine (Session Two), United Methodist Church Jan 2018

1969 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference The Proceedings Of Session One Hundred And Forty-Nine (Session Two), United Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1979 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference The Proceedings Of Session One Hundred And Fifty-Nine, The United Methodist Church Jan 2018

1979 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference The Proceedings Of Session One Hundred And Fifty-Nine, The United Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.


1895 Journal Of The Seventy-Fifth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1895 Journal Of The Seventy-Fifth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1901 Minutes Of The Eighty-First Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1901 Minutes Of The Eighty-First Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1902 Minutes Of The Eighty-Second Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1902 Minutes Of The Eighty-Second Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1958 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Thirty-Eighth Session (Twentieth Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church Jan 2018

1958 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Thirty-Eighth Session (Twentieth Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.


Rowan County Civilian Conservation Camps, Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 578. Jan 2018

Rowan County Civilian Conservation Camps, Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 578.

Rowan County Histories Collection

A collection of newspaper clippings from regional publications and historical information related to the Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 578, stationed in Rowan County, Kentucky from 1934 to 1942.


1897 Journal Of The Seventy-Seventh Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1897 Journal Of The Seventy-Seventh Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1893 Minutes Of The Seventy-Third Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1893 Minutes Of The Seventy-Third Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1894 Minutes Of The Seventy-Fourth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1894 Minutes Of The Seventy-Fourth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1900 Minutes Of The Eightieth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1900 Minutes Of The Eightieth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


1898 Journal Of The Seventy-Eighth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Jan 2018

1898 Journal Of The Seventy-Eighth Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.


0847: John Hawes Miller, Jr. West Virginia Postcard Collection, 1910s-2000s, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2018

0847: John Hawes Miller, Jr. West Virginia Postcard Collection, 1910s-2000s, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of 1,346 postcards arranged in five binders. Binder 1 contains 237 postcards of various locations in West Virginia. Binder 2 contains 294 postcards of various locations in West Virginia. Binder 3 contains 241 postcards of various locations in West Virginia. Binder 4 contains 308 postcards of various locations in West Virginia. Binder 5 contains 266 postcards various locations in Huntington, West Virginia. Postcard subjects include buildings, sights, nature scenes, and people from all areas of the state.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the John Hawes Miller, Jr. West Virginia …


Growing Economic Possibility In Appalachia: Stories Of Relocalization And Representation On Stinking Creek, Kathryn Engle Jan 2018

Growing Economic Possibility In Appalachia: Stories Of Relocalization And Representation On Stinking Creek, Kathryn Engle

Theses and Dissertations--Sociology

This project explores the agricultural heritage and current social landscape of the Stinking Creek community of Knox County, Kentucky, and the legacy of the local nonprofit organization the Lend-A-Hand Center. Through participatory research, this project presents a reflexive account of the Lend-A-Hand Center Grow Appalachia Gardening Program examining the diverse economy of the Stinking Creek watershed and possibilities for new economic imaginings and post-coal futures for central Appalachia. This dissertation includes an oral history project, a theoretical examination, and an ethnographic reflection, bridging several literatures in the fields of agricultural history, Appalachian Studies, Participatory Action Research, research within the diverse …


Embedded In These Walls, Trish J. Gibson Jan 2018

Embedded In These Walls, Trish J. Gibson

Theses and Dissertations

Embedded In These Walls uses photographic imagery, archival ephemera, and written text to examine a specific history of generational trauma through the lens of a singular family of a southern tradition to point to a larger systemic breakdown of accountability and truthfulness regarding abuse


2017-12-10 Article On The 100th Anniversary Of The Final Verdict, Lydia Justice Edwards Dec 2017

2017-12-10 Article On The 100th Anniversary Of The Final Verdict, Lydia Justice Edwards

Robert S. Frasure Murder Trials

A draft of an article by Lydia Justice Edwards on the 100th Anniversary of the final trial and verdict against Robert Frasure written on December 10, 2017.


Morehead State University Celebrates Its 130th Anniversary - 'A Light To The Mountains' Expands Its Vision, Jay Morgan Oct 2017

Morehead State University Celebrates Its 130th Anniversary - 'A Light To The Mountains' Expands Its Vision, Jay Morgan

Morehead State College Histories

No abstract provided.


Cave Run Lake Collection, United States Army Corps Of Engineers, Louisville District. Sep 2017

Cave Run Lake Collection, United States Army Corps Of Engineers, Louisville District.

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.


Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative Interviews, Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative, Chris Green, Gurney Norman, Jim Webb, Pauletta Hansel, Renee Stamper, George Ella Lyon, Richard Hague, Mike Henson, Bob Henry Baber, Pat Arnow Jul 2017

Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative Interviews, Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative, Chris Green, Gurney Norman, Jim Webb, Pauletta Hansel, Renee Stamper, George Ella Lyon, Richard Hague, Mike Henson, Bob Henry Baber, Pat Arnow

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.


County Histories Of Eastern Kentucky, Works Progress Administration, Kentucky Federal Writers Project, Other Authors Jun 2017

County Histories Of Eastern Kentucky, Works Progress Administration, Kentucky Federal Writers Project, Other Authors

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.