Kingdom Come Settlement School

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{{Infobox school

| name = Kingdom Come Settlement School

| image = Kingdom Come Settlement School.jpg

| caption = The school's final building, located on Kentucky Route 160 in Linefork

| location = 16040 Kentucky Route 160
Linefork, Kentucky 41833

| country = United States

| type = Settlement school

| closed = 1968

| colors = Green and white {{color box|Green}}{{color box|White}}

| teams = Wildcats

| religious_affiliation = Methodist

| accreditation =

}}

Kingdom Come Settlement School in Linefork, Letcher County, Kentucky, was a settlement school founded as a Methodist mission in 1924.{{citation |url=http://toto.lib.unca.edu/web_exhibits/settlement_schools_southern_appalachians/kingdom_come_settlement/default_kingdom_come.htm |author=Helen Wykle |title=Kingdom Come Settlement |work=Settlement Schools of the Southern Appalachians |publisher=D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville |date=October 28, 2008 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book |title=The Kentucky Encyclopedia |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8eFSK4o--M0C&pg=PA810 810]| author=John E. Kleber}}

As of fall 1942, the school enrolled 76 high school students and 65 grade-school students. Samuel Quigley was the principal.

Kingdom Come School had an associated settlement house. As of 1942, two of the school's women teachers, C. Lois Rea, and Ruth Lamdin, lived in the settlement house to conduct community programs and religious activities. Rea had earlier been a missionary in Malaya and was evacuated from Singapore shortly before it fell to the Japanese during World War II, and Lambdin had previously been at Henderson Settlement School, another Methodist project,

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