1978

The Dorsey Resource Center is built to house the Jackson's Mill library.

The Dorsey Resource Center incorporated an earlier structure known as Camp Shop #1. It is a two story wood structure with an L-shaped plan. The building has end-gabled asphalt shingle roofs with exposed rafters at the deep overhangs. The architecture is a domestic Craftsman-like style with similarities to other nearby classroom buildings. The main entrance to the building is on the second floor and has a small gabled porch supported by slender white wood columns with a wood fence rail. The exterior of the Dorsey Resource Center is brown painted wood siding with white trim. Interior spaces include meeting rooms, resource rooms and offices. The Dorsey Resource Center’s similarity in style to the neighboring classroom buildings and incorporation of Camp Shop #1 mark it as a contributing resource to the district. It is named for C.P. Dorsey, who was a guiding figure in the West Virginia 4-H program for many years. Major contributors to the fund to build the Dorsey Resource Center included the West Virginia 4-H All Stars, the state 4-H camp, the West Virginia Homemakers and the Benedum Foundation. It was constructed in the mid-1970s and was dedicated in 1978. The Dorsey Resource Center used to house a 4-H museum, library and resource center. Over the years, WVU Extension personnel could borrow materials from Dorsey Resource Center for use in various programs across the state. More recently, the library was removed to make way for additional meeting space, although there are still displays and pieces that have information about the history of 4-H in West Virginia.