Berea, Kentucky

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Local Information for Berea, KY

Latitude: 37.576844 -- Longitude: -84.293555

Other Area Cities:   Richmond  Berea 

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In 1850 this area, called the Glade, was a community of scattered farms with a racetrack and citizens sympathetic to emancipation. In 1853, rich and politically ambitious Cassius Marcellus Clay gave Reverend John G. Fee a free tract of land in the Glade, where with local supporters and other abolitionist missionaries from the American Missionary Association, Fee established a church, Berea College, and a tiny village. Fee named Berea after a biblical town where the people “received the Word with all readiness of mind.” Founded in 1855, Berea College became the only integrated college in the South for nearly forty years. During the Civil War, John G. Fee preached to and taught thousands of slave men who had volunteered for the Union Army. After the War, African American families came to Berea to join in the beginnings of this rich Black history. -- Source: Wikipedia.com