Government-owned property is changing hands in Campbell County to make way for a new multicultural center and museum.
The Campbell County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to transfer ownership of the Rosenwald property in Rustburg. Read more about the incident on the WDBJ7 website, here.
Fairview Brown has been working to preserve the memory of the Fairview and ES Brown Rosenwald Schools in Georgia. Last year, the organization was able to clean up the sites, secure a $15,000 federal grant for Historic Preservation, host a successful fundraiser, and construct a canopy over the roof of Fairview school.
Hopefully, this organization can make more great strides toward historic preservation in 2016. We are excited to preview Rosenwald in Floyd County this year in partnership with the organization.
If you’d like to learn more about how you can help preserve the schools, visit their website at http://fairviewbrown.org/.
Carridder Jones, author of Voices: From Historical African American Communities near Louisville, Kentucky, recently sat down with Nancy Stearns Theiss of the Courier-Journal to talk about a segment from her book. Carridder, who graduated from the Chaney Grove Rosenwald school, chose to speak about the James Taylor Subdivision.
She tells all about James Taylor’s efforts to create a residence where African Americans could own land and live in modest country homes. He even bought a bus to drive graduates of the Jacob School (the town’s Rosenwald school), to Central High School.
The Hampton Roads Show reports that Paul Robinson, owner of in Barco, NC, recently purchased the Coinjock Rosenwald school off of route 168 in order to save it from being demolished by the state. Paul plans to restore the school, making it as historically accurate as possible.
As many of you know, there are very few of the original Rosenwald schools left standing today. Now is the chance to help preserve them! In Rome, GA, The Fairview and E.S. Brown Heritage Corporation is working to restore the two eponymous schools. You can learn all about the corporation, their plan, and how you can help at fairviewbrown.org.
One of the ways you can help is by purchasing Classic Southern Dishes: From Our Home to Yours, a cookbook filled with recipes submitted by the family, friends, and alumni of the Fairview and E.S. Brown schools. The book includes about 300 historical recipes from the time of the Rosenwald schools. The profits of the book sales go to helping restore the schools, so you can eat well and sleep well after, knowing that you’ve done your part to help preserve Julius Rosenwald’s legacy.
The 2015 Conference for the National Trust for Historic Preservation begins tomorrow in Washington DC! The conference will go on until the 6th. On the last day, there will be a bus tour of five Maryland Rosenwald Schools. Maryland had a relatively small number of Rosenwald schools (156), but a larger percentage of surviving schools than other states. The tour will visit two schools in Prince George’s County, including Ridgeley School, a model restoration project, and three in Anne Arundel County, with lunch served at the Galesville School. Local school experts will lead tours of the sites, and two authors, who have written about Rosenwald Schools, will discuss their research. Lunch provided.
For more information, visit the website here.
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