Long Ridge Community, Mars Hill, NC
History and stories
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 …
1905 – President Moore of Mars Hill College, while serving Superintendent of Madison County Schools with the Board of Education, built a new Mars Hill Colored Elementary school building on Long Ridge in Mars Hill,1 Mars Hill, Grapevine, and Ivy.2 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 …
Federal Census 1930 for Madison County, North Carolina Number denotes number of children, ages 6-21 in the household (Spellings by Census Taker) MARS HILL: Coon, Doug/Sarah … 2 Henson, John … 5 Young, Ruth … 3 Rooker, Clersie … 3 Hampton, Read More …
News-Record, August 27, 1964
News-Record, April 9, 1964