Scotts Run (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 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
Reverend Franklin Trubee Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2831
Overview
Correspondence, membership lists, forms, descriptions and by-laws of self help co-operatives organized and instituted in the vicinity of Scotts Run during the latter part of the Great Depression. Trubee was a newly ordained pastor sent upon request from local volunteers by the Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church. His task was to conduct religious services and to develop programs to alleviate poverty for those unemployed miners and their families who had not been resettled at Arthurdale....
Dates:
1938-1988
Scotts Run Community Center Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0652
Overview
Scotts Run Community Center scrapbook containing photographs, clippings, attendance statistics, and a survey of families. The survey documents families inhabiting the area, indicating their nationalities, religious affiliations, and number of children. The Scotts Run Community Center, known as 'The Shack,' was started in 1928 under the auspices of the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Particularly active during the height of the Depression, its organized...
Dates:
1927-1938
Scotts Run Settlement House Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3084
Overview
Records of the Scott's Run Settlement House located in Osage, WV and founded by the Women's Society for Christian Service of the Wesley Methodist Church of Morgantown. The settlement house provided a wide range of social services for the inhabitants of the coal mining communities along Scott's Run in Monongalia County. Included in the records are board minutes, staff and statistical reports, director's correspondence, subject files, financial records, scrapbooks and clippings which document...
Dates:
1926-1989
West Virginia University, School of Mines, Reports regarding Scotts Run and Retail Economy in West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0516
Overview
Two reports prepared for the West Virginia University School of Mines in the 1930s related to development in the state. A June 1933 engineer's report describes the geological, mining, and social conditions of the Scotts Run district in Monongalia County, West Virginia, and includes photographs and maps. A January 1938 retail studies report provides statistics and comparative data pertaining to retail trade in several towns in West Virginia.
Dates:
1933, 1938