AN INTERESTING HISTORY. APPROVED BY THE PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE. 1875. CINCINNATI: Elm Street Printing Company, 176 and 178 Elm Street. 1875. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by E. H. FAIRCHILD, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. Stereotyped by OGDEN, CAMPBELL & Co., Cincinnati. BEREA COLLege. ITS LOCATION. MANY persons have examined the maps for the location of Berea, but have failed to find it. Berea is a small village of about five hundred inhabitants, considerably scattered, and of somewhat recent growth; and the inhabitants are none of them wealthy, and many of them poor. There are not more than a dozen good houses in the village. If these reasons do not sufficiently account for the absence of Berea from recent maps of Kentucky, the same reason which has hitherto excluded the College from the State School Superintendent's Annual Report may be added. Berea College is near the center of the State, in the southern part of Madison County, one of the most populous counties of the State. From Cincinnati it is reached by the Kentucky Central Railroad to Lexington one hundred miles, thence (3) 4 by stage to Richmond twenty-six miles, thence by hack to Berea fourteen miles. From Louisville it is about one hundred and fifty miles by the Richmond Branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Our nearest depot is Paint Lick, eight miles distant. We leave here at five o'clock A. M., and reach Cleveland, Chicago or Pittsburg, via Louisville and Cincinnati, the next morning. A macadamized road connects Berea with Richmond, and thence with all the large towns of the State. Kentucky excels most, if not all, other States in macadamized roads. Its common roads are generally very poor. It is not an uncommon thing for county roads to be obstructed by farm gates as often as once in a mile or two. But the gates are so constructed that a horseback rider can open them without alighting. IS IT WELL LOCATED? Berea ridge is about two miles long, of irregular shape, sometimes narrow and sometimes wide, and sometimes branching, and elevated about fifty feet above the surrounding country. The College grounds are about the center of the ridge, and on its widest part. Toward the south and east we look out upon a mountainous region, broken into more than a dozen distinct knobs from four hundred to eight hun |
