Saluda Seminary

SALUDA SEMINARY

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"It gives me great pleasure to meet with the American Missionary Association workers and speak to a sympathetic audience about our work among the Mountain Whites at Saluda, N.C. It has been of great interest to me for two years to be with these people and watch their improvement.

Saluda is a little mountain village in western North Carolina, about ten miles south of Asheville. Here the American Missionary Association has one of its 12 mountain schools, called the Saluda Seminary. One roof covers the school-rooms and the dormitories, for the building will accommodate about forty boarders. Only girls are received in the boarding department, but boys as well as girls are admitted to the day school, and some young men from a distance come to the village and board so as to attend. One hundred and thirty pupils have been in the school during the last year. The matron who has charge of the domestic department and instructs the girls in the household duties, the principal who superintends and is responsible for the development of all lines of education, and two assistant teachers, form the little mission family. My work has been with the children in the primary grade of the school. I am now acquainted with nearly all the families living within ten or twelve miles of Saluda, and the children have become very dear to me." MISS MAUDE SUMMERS )"Messages from the Fields," The American Missionary, vol. 52, Issue 4, p. 201)