page_title: Katherine Pettit
section_title: Pine Mountain Settlement School
hierarchical_section_title: Katherine Pettit / Settlement schools / Pine Mountain Settlement School
caption_attribution_description: English: Pine Mountain Settlement School near Harlan, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
context_page_description: Katherine Rebecca Pettit was an American educator and suffragist from Kentucky who contributed to the settlement school movement of the early 20th century.
context_section_description: In 1913, Pettit co-founded Pine Mountain Settlement School with Ethel deLong Zande in Harlan County, Kentucky. At Pine Mountain, Pettit directed outdoor work and agricultural education while Zande directed classical academics.
  Founding Pine Mountain as an example of the settlement movement, Pettit and deLong modeled the school after Hull House. According to Berea College's Southern Appalachian Archives,
  [Pettit and deLong] hoped that their modern ideas about health, nutrition, work efficiency, farm management, and the cultural value of indigenous crafts would permeate the surrounding communities -- both through the children, and through direct contact with adults.
  Pine Mountain Settlement School is a National Historic Landmark.
caption: Pine Mountain Settlement School, photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in 1940.
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