Jacobs Hall

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This file appears in: Alcorn Homestead
Jacobs Hall

East View of Jacobs Hall, Kentucky School for the Deaf in Danville, Kentucky. Alcorn taught here for eleven years, and it is now a museum on the campus. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Alcorn Homestead

By Ashlee Chilton
Historical Marker #2135 in Lincoln County marks the home of noted teacher Sophia Alcorn, who worked extensively with hearing and vision impaired students during the early twentieth century. Born in Stanford in Lincoln County on August 3, 1883,…