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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Mary T. Martin Sloop Letters, #3620-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Florence Wyatt Sparger of Durham, N.C., December 1962.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions.
• Crossnore School.
• Education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Schools--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Sloop, Mary T. Martin, 1873-1962.
• Women in education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Social conditions.

Dr. Mary Martin Sloop (1873-1962), daughter of a Davidson College professor, moved to Avery County, N.C., in 1911 with her husband, Eustace Henry Sloop, and spent the rest of her life building up the Crossnore School, a home and school for mountain children. Her life and work are described in her autobiography Miracle of the Hills.

The collection contains letters from Mary Martin Sloop about her work at Crossnore School and from two children who benefitted from scholarship aid.