Aerial Photos of the Mars Hill Rosenwald School
Photos taken by Ryan Philips, August 2016
Category: Press
Rehabilitation of the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School
Written by Paul Eggers, News Record & Sentinel, Marshall, NC At first glance, an old boarded up building standing beside a narrow gravel road in the Long Ridge Community of Mars Hill would seem a more likely candidate for demolition Read More …
A Pioneering School for Black Children in Madison County
Cameron Huntley wrote an amazingly in-depth article for the Mountain Xpress. The cover of the January 23, 2015 issue featured Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald school alumni Fatimah Shabazz and Omar McClain. If you wander off the beaten path in Mars Read More …
Flavor of the Month
February’s Flavor of the Month at Ultimate Ice Cream Company Asheville is Cinnamon with RedHots, and it benefits the Friends of the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School. The company offered to support the school and our efforts to rehabilitate it Read More …
We Remember – Saving Madison County’s Rosenwald School
Published in Volume 21 / Issue 26, January 21, 2015 of the Mountain Xpress On the cover, Fatimah Shabazz and Omar McClain, alumni of the Mars Hill Rosenwald school.
Pride of Place
By Paul Clark, November 8, 2014 – Bold Life Magazine, www.boldlife.com Efforts to preserve the old schoolhouse for black students in Mars Hill have included the creation of a rehabilitation committee, a Facebook page with news updates, and watercolor depictions Read More …
Our Story – This Place Exhibition
New Exhibition opens at Mars Hill University’s Rural Heritage Museum The History of African American Education in Madison County, North Carolina: The Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School Exhibition dates: September 14, 2014 – February, 28, 2015 Reception: September 14, 2014, Read More …
Anderson Rosenwald School – Sept. 2013
Reprinted from the Urban News, September 2013 On Sept. 1, 2013, the Anderson Rosenwald School Project Planning Committee opened the historic building in Mars Hill for donors, supporters, and alumni to see the progress made so far in restoring the Read More …
WNC Magazine – School Reformed
An historic schoolhouse for African Americans in Madison County finds a new community role Written By: Jon Elliston; Photograph by: Emily Chaplin In the Jim Crow era, African Americans attended separate and decidedly unequal schools throughout the South. However, some Read More …
Mars Hill alumni of African-American school lead restoration effort
from the Asheville Citizen-Times, Mar. 13, 2012. Written by Melissa Dean http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20120314/LIVING/303140021/Mars-Hill-alumni-African-American-school-lead-restoration-effort More than 60 years later, school days have returned for Dorothy Coone. She’s among the former students working to restore the Anderson Rosenwald School she attended here in Read More …