Mountain Retreat Association (Montreat, N.C.) (Corporate Name)

Outline program of the Montreat Conferences, 1935: t.p. (Mountain Retreat Association)

American Presbyterians, v.74, no.2, summer 1996: p.103 (MRA, now more frequently called the Montreat Conference Center)

Phone call to Bill Bynum, Presbyterian Church Dept. of History, Montreat: (Mountain Retreat Association is still the formal name of the organization owning/running what is more commonly known as the Montreat Conference Center, in Montreat, N.C.)

PPPrHi files: (Mountain Retreat Association, also known as the MRA, was est. in 1897 by John Alexander Porter and John C. Collins as an international resort and retreat center in the hills near Ashville, N.C. It became the property of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. in 1907 and has been used by it as a camp/conference center ever since. The settlement that arose there shortened its name to Montreat, a name chosen by a contest; Montreat, N.C. is now also the site of Montreat-Anderson College and one of the two branches of the Presbyterian Dept. of History)