Little Professor of Piney Woods-The Story of Professor Laurence Jones
Entry/Object ID
L2006.7.7
Description
Little Professor of Piney Woods is the story of Dr. Laurence Jones, president and founder of the Piney Woods, Mississippi. Country Life School. In 1909 Laurence Jones entered the backwoods of southern Mississippi starting with a backwoods sheep shed and ten students and culimated in the famous Piney Woods Country Life School, with its beautiful campus, modern dormitories, classrooms and well-equipped workshops and an annual enrollment of five hundred students..- The school has a three-quarter of a million-dollar physical plant which includes substantial brick buildings, dairies, gardens, orchards, and farm lands, as well as nearly a million dollars in permanent endowment, a regular enrollment of five hundred boarding students, and a staff of forty teachers.
Laurence Jones is a native of St. Joseph, MO.
192/Softbound/Photographs.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Education, Schools
Search Terms
Mississippi Black Education, Piney Woods Country Life School, Black History, Biography, Jones, Laurence C.
