The Dorland-Bell School was a mission school in

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, USA. It was founded in 1886, when Luke and Juliette Dorland,

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missionaries and educators, retired to Hot Springs. At the request of area residents, they established a school in Hot Springs and soon were teaching 25 students in their home. Luke Dorland appealed to his former employer, the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, and $300 was granted for books and equipment. At their own expense, the Dorlands built a two-story frame schoolhouse to accommodate the growing number of students. By 1894, the school, now known as the Dorland Institute, had grown to include a girls' dormitory, an expanded schoolhouse, and additional teachers. In 1918, the Dorland Institute merged with the Bell Institute, a large day school for girls, to form the Dorland-Bell School. At this time, the Dorland-Bell School included of land, boarding facilities for 100 girls in the village, and a farm with housing for 40 boys. When Dorland-Bell School closed in 1942, it merged with the Asheville Farm School to form what is now

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#Jacqueline Burgin Painter, ''The Season of Dorland-Bell: History of an Appalachian Mission School'' (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1987), . Educational institutions established in 1886 Defunct schools in North Carolina 1886 establishments in North Carolina {{NorthCarolina-school-stub

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