Draft:Eckstein Norton Institute

Not to be confused with Cane Spring in Madison County (Cane Spring Chirch)?

Cane Spring or Cane Springs?

Old Cane Springs? https://www.jstor.org/stable/23370124 and https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/old-cane-springs/

also a cane spring in Estill County???

https://www.kyatlas.com/ky-lotus.html

Eckstein Norton Institute was a school for African Americans in Kentucky. Near Lotus, Kentucky. It was planned as a vocational school and opened in 1890. It was named for donor Eckstein Norton, president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Nortonville, Kentucky is named for him.

The 75 acre campus was near the Cane Springs Depot on the railroad line from Bardstown Junction (Bardstown, Kentucky) running eastward. It had a brick main building with twenty-five rooms, five frame buildings with twenty rooms for dormitories and assembly halls, a printing office, and a laundry and blacksmith shop. "The accommodations are not adequate to the demands upon them," reported the Courier-Journal in 1902.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7359-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Hattie Gibbs and Mary V. Cook taught at it.

It merged with Lincoln Institute in 1912.{{cite web | url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/bullitt/2014/02/21/bullitt-memories-eckstein-norton-institute/5676329/ | title=Bullitt Memories | Eckstein Norton Institute }}

Bullitt County?