Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 12: LAND USE
LAND USE GUIDE
1913 – present

But to lack responsibility.

— Scott Russell Sanders

Land use is how we negotiate our space. Space can be used as one of the analytical tools we study in order to think historically. Yet, as Doreen Massy* has reminded us, “We cannot understand place by enclosing it in boundaries … space is a simultaneity of stories so far …” and is created by the connections of people to the land and connections between peoples and bigger geographies.

The space in which Pine Mountain was created is more than geography and has been and is continually shaped, managed, and studied through actions that take place between those people. How those people occupy the space and their larger cultural geographies often determines what direction the land use will take. Land use is fluid. It is dynamic, it is a historical record and it is often contentious. At Pine Mountain, this melding of the social, the physical and the mental — three types of space that Henri Lefebvre** in The Production of Space, 1974, sees as fundamental — can be seen in the archival record (documents and photographs) as well as in the current physical evidence of that space that is theirs. That space contains their stories. But space is also the land space that is documented in the official record.

*See: Massy, Doreen. (1994) Space, place, and gender. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
**See: Lefebvre, (1958; 1992) Henri. The Social Production of Space. Wiley-Blackwell.

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Dollar Branch following restoration. [OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA, P8030003.jpg]

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Land use is one of the more fascinating and confounding aspects of the history of Pine Mountain Settlement School. In the archival record, land use is recorded by the following:

Land Use Guide: DOCUMENTS

Series 12: LAND USE

LAND USE 1911 Wm. Creech Donor Land Swap Survey

LAND USE Bibliography (BIBLIOGRAPHY Environmental Education and Land Use)

LAND USE Recreation, Bickford Preserve, Hiking Trails
     LAND USE Bickford Nature Preserve
     LAND USE Jack’s Gap Recreation Area

LAND USE PMSS Coal Mine, Mining, and Miners
     LAND USE Coal Mine Map at Pine Mountain Settlement School
     LAND USE Coal Mine at PMSS Draft Lease Agreement 1944

LAND USE Dollar Branch
LAND USE Dollar Branch Correspondence

LAND USE Gas

LAND USE Jillson, Willard Rouse. “Agricultural Perspective of Kentucky Geology” 1925

LAND USE Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition
     Robin LAMBERT Biography – PASSWORD PROTECTED

LAND USE Liens, Right-of-Way, Roads
    LAND USE Little Shepherd Trail
    LAND USE Road Report of Fox & Peck Engineers 1917
    LAND USE Laden Trail or “The Road“

LAND USE Land Use Plan for PMSS, c.1913 (Christensen ?)

LAND USE Map Community Residents 1934 – 1942
LAND USE Maps Guide
LAND USE Maps of PMSS Area

LAND USE Pine Mountain Hemlock Survey 2000

LAND USE Plan for Pine Mountain Mid-1930s

LAND USE Planning and Site Indenture 1913

LAND USE Soil Survey of Bell & Harlan Co., KY

LAND USE Stream Study and Curriculum

LAND USE Timber and Logging Record

LAND USE Train Troubles

LAND USE Water Protection Plan 1997-1998 Overview and Emergency Plan

LAND USE Report on Proposed Pine Mt School Site 1913

LOCAL HISTORY SCRAPBOOK Cumberland Gap 1815-1861 Part I
LOCAL HISTORY SCRAPBOOK Cumberland Gap & Vicinity Fall & Early Winter 1861 Part II
LOCAL HISTORY SCRAPBOOK Cumberland Gap 1861-1862 Part III

Wilson, Leonard S. “Settlement Forms in the Northwest Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky”

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See Also: 

DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH Guide
DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH III Place

FARM Drawings
FARM Lime Kiln Processing
Series 11: FARM
FARM Wells Record 08 Dairy Poultry Early History by Evelyn K. Wells
Farming the Land Early Years 1913-1930

GOVERNANCE Articles of Dedication PMSS and State Nature Preserve (Draft)

RESERVOIR

Biographies:

EVELYN K. WELLS Staff  
KATHERINE PETTIT Director 
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Architect
ROBIN LAMBERT Director (Password Protected)
WILLIAM HAYES Staff Part III

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