Faith
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Rev. Hiram M. Frakes founded this Methodist settlement in 1925. Begun in a cabin with 13 students, it became an institution for the spiritual and educational development of mountain youth. Frakes guided and influenced the entire Middle Laurel Fork Valley, and local gratitude for his work was simply expressed in the words, "Parson, we're glad you came."
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Pineville, Kentucky · United States
