Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School
Long Ridge Community, Mars Hill, NC
Friends of the Mars Hill Rosenwald School began meeting in the fall of 2009 and organized the Planning Committee to save the school building. Steward Coates was elected as leader of the group, and committees were appointed: Building, Grants, History, Read More …
On May 31, 2018 the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The school is listed as the Mars Hill School, MD0253. Mars Hill School is located in a rural area in the Read More …
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In 1912 Booker T. Washington, prominent educator and proponent of the power of self-help, approached Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck, and Co., with his idea of building schools for African-American children in the rural South. Rosenwald had already demonstrated Read More …
Faculty, staff, and students have played a major roll this year in the creation of the Historic Anderson Rosenwald Rehabilitation Project. The project’s two goals are to rebuild and preserve the structure of the Anderson Rosenwald School (ARS) and to Read More …
Donations for the Anderson School Project can be sent to the Madison County Schools central office in care of the MC Education Foundation. Please make all donations payable to the Anderson Rosenwald School Project. Address for the central office is Read More …
In the fall of 2009 the Friends Group of the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School began meeting to save the school building. After more than a decade of dedicated hard work and perseverance, the school building has now been rehabilitated.1 Read More …