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gh- HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL was founded in 1902 by May Stone
of Louisville and Katherine Pettit of Lexington, under the sponsorship
er. of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. The school was organ-
ized to supply the need expressed by "Uncle Sol" Beveridge, 82 years
Eg; of age, who had walked 20 miles from Hindman to Hazard to enlist the
jyd . interest of the two young women who were camping there. He said:
xde "When I was a little chunk of a shirt—tailed lad, a-hoeing corn on the
§d— steep hillside, I’d get to the end of a row and look up Troublesome
  Creek and wonder if anybody would ever come to larn the young ’uns.
the Nobody ever come in. Nobody ever went out. We jist growed up and
never knowed nothin’. I can’t read nor write· many of my chilluns
can’t read nor write, but I have grands and greats as is the purtiest
ty, speakin’ and the easiest larnin’ of any chilluns in the world. I want as
lm they should have a chancet."
IFS The school, the first of its kind in the State, was started in a little
lt- house and a near—by cottage on four acres of rented ground; today the
HH institution owns 165 acres of land and 18 buildings. It is accredited by
Bd- the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges and has an
kY average enrollment. of 400. The curriculum includes preparation for
as college, as well as industrial training, homemaking, and social service.
WY Extension work—sewing and cooking classes, public health service,
WY home demonstration, and Sunday school—is carried on in the county.
NY Through the Fireside Industries, a phase of the school’s work that has .
T5 been emphasized, traditional homecrafts have been revived and today
*9% the coverlets, blankets, and other products of the loom, made by the
¤V1 mountain women, are on sale. The returns to the workers for this hand-
031 work are very low because of the competition with machine-made goods,
BH- but those sponsoring the movement say that the work does at least
ies ri in some ash to h h h ' ` .
nad b 3% the school grounds $5ihZ ·%§$f’E‘§’0£?f“§2.‘,L1¥D2§ ?§§l‘§g(‘§pa),
Lch restored to honor the old mountaineer whose vision inspired the estab-
re- lishment of the school. The cabin is furnished as it was when "Uncle
rho Sol" lived in it, with spinning wheel and dulcimer, home-made wooden
ren furniture, rifle and powder horn, home-made coverlets and rugs, and
ear iron cooking utensils around the open fireplace.
1ey The work of the school has been portrayed in the stories of Lucy
ast Furman, a teacher here for many years. Her best known works, Quare
sh, Women and H ard-hearted Barbara Allen, preserve the racy idiom and
{ly imaginative language of the mountaineer.
DWARF, 47 m. (900 alt., 118 pop.), is the site of the old TUNNEL
lad · MILL, which still grinds the mountaineers’ corn. Near by is a horse-
as shoe bend of the creek, where two early settlers tunneled through the
use mountain in order to obtain increased force in the fall of the water for t
wht a millrace. After nine years of labor they completed the undertaking
lzrs and built a sawmill, a carding mill, and a gristmill. Only the gristmill
· remains.
m Dwarf is at the junction with State 15 (see Tour 2) ; between Dwarf
and a junction at 52.7 m., State 80 and State 15 are one route.