North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Office of the Director records, 1914-2010 [manuscript]

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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Office of the Director records, 1914-2010 [manuscript]

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Contains correspondence, publications, reports, studies, and minutes relating to the administration and activities of extension programs, 4-H, home demonstration, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), rural development, and farm education. Records include information on the "Live at Home" program. The majority of these materials are arranged alphabetically by topic. Also contains correspondence, reports, and plans of work relating to projects pertaining to rural development, family life, dairy, conservation, tobacco, nutrition and health, wildlife, land use planning, and agronomy; contains financial statements, correspondence, and receipts, organized in rough chronological order.

149 linear ft. (100 cartons + 1 archival box + 1 flat file)

North Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries

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Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Office of the Director.

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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service

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Although extension activities began in the late nineteenth century with the formation of the North Carolina State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service was officially formed in 1914 with the passage of the Smith-Lever Act. Extension services provide education and programming in numerous subjects, among them agriculture, forestry, environmental sustainability, youth and family development, and community viability. From the descript...