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MAP OF HEALTH FAIRS:

Places

  • Tennessee
    • Briceville, TN
    • Bumpus Cove, TN
    • Chattanooga, TN
    • Clairfield, TN
    • Deer Lodge, TN
    • Grundy County, TN
    • Habersham, TN
    • Loretto, TN
    • Memphis, TN
    • Petros, TN
    • Robbins, TN
    • Rossville, TN
    • Sneedville, TN
    • Stanton, TN
    • Stewart County, TN
    • Stoney Fork, TN
  • Kentucky
    • Mud Creek, KY
    • Frakes, KY
  • Virginia
    • St. Charles, VA
  • Health Fairs
    • 1969 – 1978 Health Fair Map
    • 1979 – 1983 Health Fair Map

Cherokee, NC

Special Project June 16, 1980 – August 1, 1980


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Interview with Mary Herr by Jessie Wilkerson, May 19 2011, Southern Oral History Program, UNC Chapel Hill

Mary Herr was born in Springfield, Ill. in 1940. In 1978 she moved to Cherokee, N.C. where she has worked on many community development projects, primarily in legal aid services. Herr begins the interview by discussing her family history; a… Continued

A community-driven archive project developed by the Student Health Coalition, in partnership with the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Eskind Library at Vanderbilt University.

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