4-1085: The Southern Education Board was established in 1901 as the executive branch of the Conference for Education in the South. The Conference emerged from meetings in Capon Springs , West Virginia, in, 1898–1900. Its mission was promoting public education in the South as well as modern agricultural methods and rural community development. It closed in 1914. The director was Edgar Gardner Murphy , an Episcopal minister from Montgomery, Alabama. Leading Board members included Robert Curtis Ogden (1836-1913), president; Charles D. McIver (1860- 1908), secretary; George Foster Peabody (1852-1938), treasurer; Edwin A. Alderman (1861-1931); William H. Baldwin (1863-1905); Wallace Buttrick (1853-1926); J.L.M. Curry (1825-1903); Charles W. Dabney (1855-1945); George Sherwood Dickerman (1843-1937); Hollis B. Frissell (1851-1917); H.H. Hanna; Walter Hines Page (1855-1918); and Albert Shaw (1857-1947). It
8-543: The 2000 census , the Capon Springs community has a population of 95. It is located on Capon Springs Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 16) along Capon Springs Run . Originally known as Frye's Springs after its discoverer Henry Frye, and later established as the Town of Watson in 1787, the town was renamed for its medicinal spring. The springs were believed to carry such healing power that half an acre sold for $ 900 in gold in
12-713: The late 18th century. After West Virginia seceded from Virginia in 1863, it had to pay Virginia for the loss of the springs during Reconstruction . The historic Capon Springs & Farms resort is located here and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Herman Guy Kump (1877–1962), 19th Governor of West Virginia , and American educator Arthur R. M. Spaid (1866–1936) were born in Capon Springs. Capon Springs and its post office have been known by several varying names throughout its history, which include: [REDACTED] Media related to Capon Springs, West Virginia at Wikimedia Commons This article
16-827: Was related to a series of philanthropic organizations directed at the South, including the Southern Conference for Education and Industry, the Southern Educational Association, and the Southern Education Society. Its records are held by the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Capon Springs Capon Springs is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County , West Virginia , United States. According to
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