Editing Pippa Passes, Kentucky (section)

==History==

This settlement was known as "Caney" or "Caney Creek" before 1916, when [[Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd|Alice Lloyd]] arrived from [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. She solicited funds<!-- from whom? --> for the construction of a local post office and the founding of Caney Creek Junior College, which were opened in 1917 and 1923, respectively.

Members of the Methodist church were active in what they called Home Missionary work in Pippa Passes around 1930. They performed a "missionary play" about the town in [[Princeton, New Jersey]] in 1930.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 28, 1930 |title=Methodist Church Services |edition= |volume=7 |pages=2 |work=Princeton Herald |issue=21 |url=https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=princetonherald19300328.2.28&srpos=4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22missionary+play%22------}}</ref>

A donation from the [[Browning Society]] led to the post office's being named after [[Robert Browning]]'s ''[[Pippa Passes]].'' In this verse drama, he coined the phrase "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world."<ref>{{cite book|last=Rundquist|first=Thomas J.|title=Substitute Teacher Survival Activities Vol 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0SQKH7d1hYC&pg=PA46|date=1 August 2000|publisher=Nova Media Inc|isbn=978-1-884239-51-9|page=46}}</ref> The [[U.S. Postal Service]]'s official name for this location was "Pippapass" until 1955.<ref name="ren">Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA236 p. 236]. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 1 August 2013.</ref>

The city of Pippa Passes was [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] by the [[Kentucky Assembly|state assembly]] on July 1, 1983.