Celo Community collection of Papers, 1950 - 1966.

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Celo Community collection of Papers, 1950 - 1966.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191849130

Collection consists of 4 items about the intentional community located in the Black Mountains of Yancey County, North Carolina. These documents detail the origins of the Celo Community from its residents' perspective during the 1950s and the 1960s.

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Appalachian State University, ASU

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959331

Appalachian State University, ASU

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Appalachian State University. W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Archives.

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Celo Community

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In 1937, Arthur E. Morgan, William Regnery, and Clarence Pickett founded the Celo Community as an utopian community experiment in Yancey County, North Caroilna. It was chartered as a non-profit land-holding corporation which had a summer camps, schools, and a health center. Many of its early members were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). From the description of Celo Community collection of Papers, 1950 - 1966. (Western North Carolina Library Network). WorldCat record id: 1...