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The Centre at Halifax Community College
Weldon, North Carolina
November 18-19, 2005
If you are trying to preserve a Rosenwald school, this workshop will provide strategies for achieving your goals. Local sponsors of successful Rosenwald school rehabilitations and historic preservation professionals will present useful information during a field trip to schools awaiting renovation and through a day of sessions at The Centre at Halifax Community College, 200 College Drive, Weldon, North Carolina. There will be ample time for workshop registrants to ask questions and talk about their projects and there will be tables for participants to set up displays.
On Friday, November 18, registration begins at 11:30 AM. After lunch, a bus tour to Rosenwald schools in Halifax and Northampton counties will depart at 12:30 PM. These counties on the Virginia state line had a remarkable number of Rosenwald schools—46 in Halifax County (more than any other North Carolina county) and 21 in Northampton. The tour will end at the Tillery Community Center where there will be a presentation on the Tillery Resettlement Project and a reception.
Sessions on Saturday, November 19, include four case studies of completed or ongoing school rehabilitations for new uses, as well as presentations by professional fund raisers and a restoration contractor:
"A Brief History of Halifax County’s Rosenwald Schools: Tribute to a Builder," Nyoni Collins, The Sankofa Center and North Carolina Rosenwald Schools Community Project
"Case Study: Noble Hill School, Cassville, GA," Marian Coleman, Noble Hill Wheeler Memorial Center, and Jeanne Cyriaque, Georgia State Historic Preservation Office
"Mothballing a School for Future Rehabilitation," Dean Ruedrich, Preservation North Carolina
"Case Study: Walnut Cove Colored School, Walnut Cove, NC," Marshall Harvey, Harvey and Associates Development Consultants
"The Rosenwald Initiative," John Hildreth, National Trust for Historic Preservation
"Creative Strategies for Finding New Uses and Raising Funds While Preserving the Physical Assets," Paul Brown, Self-Help, and Kate Rumely, Brick Capital CDC
"Case Study: W.E.B. DuBois School, Wake Forest, NC," Bettie Murchison, W.E.B. DuBois Center
"Case Study: Ware Creek School," Alethea Williams-King, Blounts Creek, NC, and John Wood, NC State Historic Preservation Office
"Statewide Survey of North Carolina’s Rosenwald Schools: An Update," Claudia Brown, NC State Historic Preservation Office
This workshop has been funded in part by a grant from the Terence L. Mills Memorial Preservation Fund for North and South Carolina of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and by a grant from the North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives. Other sponsors include East Carolina University's Division of Continuing Studies, North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, Halifax County Tourism Development Authority, The Centre at Halifax Community College, Sankofa Center, and Concerned Citizens of Tillery.
For more information, call (800) 767-9111
