Mountaineer Mining Mission (Monongalia County, W. Va.)
Organization
Biography
One of the components of this mission is a community center commonly known as "The Shack" or "The Shack Neighborhood House."
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Behner Christopher, Missionary, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3131
Overview
The microfilm collection contains 10 diaries and inserted supplementary letters, clippings, and photographs kept by Presbyterian missionary Mary Behner during her years as the first director of The Shack, a settlement house in the Scotts Run Area of Monongalia County. In addition to the microfilm, there is an addendum to this collection dating from 2006. It includes a photograph album kept by Anna Santore DeLancy, who was a Sunday School teacher at the Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood...
Dates:
1928-1937
Presbyterian Neighborhood Services, Pursglove, Miscellaneous Item regarding "The Shack"
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2491
Overview
Newsletters, circulars, typescripts, conference documents, and photographs relating to "The Shack," a community center for youth recreation operated by the neighborhood services agency of the United Presbyterian Church. A brief inventory of these papers is available.
Dates:
1956-1972
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- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Presbyterian Neighborhood Services. 1
- Pursglove, Monongalia County - 1
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