Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School
Long Ridge Community, Mars Hill, NC
History and stories
The Rosenwald Schools of North Carolina Filmmakers Tom Lassiter and Jere Snyder, and their nonprofit Longleaf Productions, created this 30-minute documentary. Southern states largely ignored their responsibilities to educate Black children in the early 20th century. It was, after all, Read More …
The remarkable history and rehabilitation of the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School. Our Story, This Place tells the fascinating history of the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School in the Long Ridge Community of Mars Hill, North Carolina, providing comprehensive information Read More …
1905 – President Moore of Mars Hill College, while serving as Superintendent of Madison County Schools with the Board of Education, built a new Mars Hill Colored Elementary school building in what became the Long Ridge Community in Mars Hill,1 Read More …
Take a trip to the 1920s when Rosenwald Schools were being constructed across the south. The photographs in this collection depict construction efforts and building progress, newly completed buildings, and damaged buildings or buildings in disrepair. Students and local residents, Read More …
1793-1832 – Old Buncombe County “Old Field Schools,”1 Madison County Area (Log school buildings erected in worn-out farm fields) 1833 – Yancey County Established, included Madison County Area 1840-1850 – Buncombe/Yancey County “Common Schools,” including Madison. (NC statewide free public Read More …
This history script is for MHARS Friends Group Review1 1856 During MHC’s first ten years, 1856-1865, its Ethnic Heritage history is a mixed ethnic story. Of the twenty-two known Founding Families, fifteen had no slaves; five families had domestic slaves, Read More …
Five students from the Long Ridge School and community are given as examples of academic achievement and cultural contributions, still living today, from second to sixth school generations. Charity Ray, retired from Mars Hill University School of Education and Library, Read More …
After the Civil War, public education began again in North Carolina by the 1870’s, including free public education for elementary colored students in Madison County.[i] Later, by 1901, Madison County operated colored schools at Hot Springs, Little Pine, Marshall, and Read More …
Plans are underway to publish a Notated History of the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School. This is the 4th draft of the book created by Friends of the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School and the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School Read More …
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 …