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- 1 2 Judy Flavell, Settlement Schools and the Culture of the Mountains, KET-TV website, accessed August 3, 2010
- 1 2 3 Mission and History Archived 2008-05-19 at the Wayback Machine , Hindman Settlement School website
- ↑ Arrowmont Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine from the Pi Beta Phi web site
- 1 2 3 History Archived 2008-07-03 at the Wayback Machine , Pine Mountain Settlement School website
- 1 2 The Appalachian Settlement Schools, KET, Lexington, Kentucky
- 1 2 3 Jennifer Minton, The Current Roles of Settlement Schools, KET, Lexington, Kentucky
- 1 2 Josh Flory, Pi Beta Phi fraternity to sell Arrowmont land, Knoxville News Sentinel, August 16, 2008
- ↑ "A Representative List of Appalachian Settlement Schools". Kentucky Educational Television . 1995. Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ↑ "Settlement schools, settlement houses, mission schools, sponsored schools & early colleges in the Southern Appalachians and Social or Sponsored Organizations related to Settlement Schools in the Southern Appalachians". D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville. Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 Kleber, John E. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2883-2.
- ↑ Pearl Cashell Jackson, Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (University of Texas, 1927).
- ↑ Helen Wykle (October 28, 2008), "Riverside Christian Training School", Settlement Schools of the Southern Mountains, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville (Note: this source is no longer at this repository)
- ↑ Helen Wykle (October 28, 2008), "Stuart Robinson School", Settlement Schools of the Southern Mountains, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville, archived from the original on March 20, 2012 (Note: this source is no longer at this repository)
- ↑ Helen Wykle (October 11, 2008), "Sunset Gap Community Center", Settlement Schools of the Southern Mountains, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville (Note: this source is no longer at this repository)