List of Appalachian Settlement Schools
The following are examples of settlement schools and other institutions (most no longer in operation) that were first founded as settlement schools:
- Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, Kentucky
- Annville Institute, Annville, Kentucky
- Bethel Mennonite Center, Rowdy, Kentucky
- Buckhorn Children’s Center, Buckhorn, Kentucky
- John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
- Frontier Nursing Service, Hyden, Kentucky
- Hazel Green Academy, Hazel Green, Kentucky
- Henderson Settlement School, Frakes, Bell County, Kentucky. Founded in 1921.
- Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, Kentucky
- Hinton Rural Life Center, Hayesville, North Carolina
- Jackson Area Ministries Resource and Training Center, Jackson, Ohio
- Kingdom Come Settlement School, Linefork, Letcher County, Kentucky. Founded in 1924 by Methodists.
- Lotts Creek Community School, Cordia, Knott County, Kentucky. Founded in 1933.
- Oneida Baptist Institute, Oneida, Kentucky
- Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (now Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts), Gatlinburg, Tennessee
- Pine Mountain Settlement School, Harlan County, Kentucky
- Pittman Community Center, Pittman Center, Tennessee
- Red Bird Mission, Beverly, Bell County, Kentucky. Founded in 1925.
- Riverside Christian Training School, Lost Creek, Breathitt County, Kentucky. Founded in 1905 by the Church of the Brethren.
- Stuart Robinson School, Blackey, Kentucky. Founded in 1913 as a Presbyterian mission.
- Sunset Gap Community Center, Newport, Tennessee. Started in 1920 by Presbyterians.
- Vardy Community School, Vardy, Hancock County, Tennessee
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