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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 10:\u00a0Built Environment – Medical Settlements
\nSeries 14: Medical, Health & Hygiene<\/h5>\n

Line Fork Settlement, 1920 – 1941 (?)<\/h2>\n
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TAGS: <\/strong>Line Fork Settlement, Linefork, medical settlements, extension centers, satellite settlements, promotional flyers, maps, Medical Settlement at Big Laurel, women workers, job training, community outreach, moral economy, personal narratives, photograph albums, state and county programs, problems of Appalachia, social services, education, physicians, nurses<\/span><\/p>\n

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Line Fork Settlement was the second of seven planned extension centers (five centers in ten years is mentioned in a 1918 report) initiated by Pine Mountain Settlement School as they sought to expand their health and education programs into the long Pine Mountain Valley and the surrounding hollows. Line Fork or today, “Linefork,” is an unincorporated community approximately six miles east of Pine Mountain Settlement School [37\u00b01\u203211\u2033N 82\u00b057\u203235\u2033W<\/a>]. <\/span><\/p>\n

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“The Cabin” at Line Fork Settlement. Source: Marian Kingman Album. [kingman010mod.jpg]<\/p><\/div>The history of the extension center at Line Fork is both rich and deep and many of the records have survived over time. The extension initiative is described in a promotional flyer<\/strong> [see below] written for potential donors during the beginning years of the settlement extension. The brochure describes some of the\u00a0plans proposed by Katherine Pettit<\/a><\/strong> and Ethel de Long<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the satellite settlements that would support Pine Mountain’s programs.<\/p>\n

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Planned Future Extension Centers, marked as red boxes on the map. Date and origin of map not known; probably prior to July 1920, as Line Fork location is still marked as a “future” extension. Pine Mountain Settlement is near center of map as outlined box in heavy black with “I” in center of the box. Medical Settlement is indicated as in existence as a red box with “II” in center of the box. [map_ext_workmod.jpg]<\/p><\/div>Only two of the nine settlement extensions came to full fruition:\u00a0The Medical Settlement at Big Laurel<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the Line Fork Settlement<\/strong>. There were other settlement workers at Wooton, Little Laurel, and other school locations, but the\u00a0school locations were not full settlement extensions and\u00a0were not fully staffed. The brochure\u00a0could be read as a prescription for the basic community needs of the designated areas and a training tool for the new settlements and their staff as they were gradually added. Big Laurel, while first to be added, does not have as complete a record as the later Line Fork Settlement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The views expressed in the early “Line Fork Settlement” brochure rapidly changed as community and settlement workers came to understand more deeply the human conditions that played out during the development years of the extension. In the geographically contained environments at Big Laurel and especially at Line Fork, the medical, educational, and social needs went far beyond what either the workers or the community of interest imagined. The complexity of urban encounters with rural lifestyles pulled into question the underlying social realities of workers and the community. Deeply confounding was the question of what constitutes “improvement,” and what could be measured and prioritized as critical to programming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gallery: LINE FORK SETTLEMENT Promotional Brochure<\/h3>\n\n\t\t