Berea (Kentucky) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city in Kentucky
About Berea (Kentucky)
Berea was founded in 1854 by the abolitionist minister John Fee (with help from the former slave owner Cassius Clay, of Whitehall in northern Madison County), as an integrated community founded on the principle that "God has made of one blood all the nations of the earth" and hence slavery and racial segregation were sinful. Fee named the town Berea after a town in Macedonia mentioned in the Book of Acts whose inhabitants were open to accepting Paul's new ideas based on a careful study of the Scriptures. The school Fee established grew into Berea College, which flourished in the late nineteenth century as an interracial institution before the state government forced it to segregate in 1904. Thereafter, the college shifted its focus to the education of poor white people from Appalachia. In
Top Attractions in Berea (Kentucky)
Explore the best things to see and do in Berea (Kentucky):
- ★Berea College Visitor Center and Shoppe
- ★Berea Welcome Center
- ★The Pinnacles
Where to Eat in Berea (Kentucky)
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴Boone Tavern Dining Room
Where to Stay in Berea (Kentucky)
- 🏨Boone Tavern Hotel
- 🏨Econo Lodge
- 🏨Fairfield Inn & Suites
- 🏨Holiday Inn Express Berea
- 🏨HomeGrown HideAways
- 🏨Knights Inn
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