1865 to 1900
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Baker Barber Collection
1865 to 1900
Flat Rock Blacksmith
John Markley and his sons were well-known African-American blacksmiths in Flat Rock from 1877 until the early 1900’s. https://www.blueridgenow.com/article/NC/20130217/News/606022456/HT ...
Logan Community Chapel
Logan Community Chapel was founded by freed slaves in 1865. https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20170212/nonprofit-aims-to-preserve-logan-community-chapel ...
1865-1900 Overview
After the Civil War Freed slaves settled in several communities throughout Henderson County. These communities were centered around Black churches ...
Freed Slaves in Flat Rock
Many of the slaves owned by wealthy Charleston planters chose to remain in Flat Rock after the Civil War. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41446547?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents ...
The Kingdom of Happy Land
Freed slaves founded the Kingdom of Happy Land in the 1870’s near today’s Lake Summit. With money they earned as ...
Mud Creek Missionary Baptist Church (East Flat Rock)
There is such a close connection between the early black settlers of Flat Rock and the Mud Creek Missionary Baptist Church ...
St. Paul Tabernacle A.M.E. Zion Church – Brief History
Shaw’s Creek A.M.E. Zion Church had begun in 1865 when a group of people from Horseshoe, N.C., persevered in their ...
Star of Bethel Baptist Church Brief History
The Star of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1873 with fourteen charter members under the pastorate of Rev ...
Mt. Zion Baptist Church At Clear Creek
A few years after the Civil War a group of settlers moved into the Fruitland-Edneyville area of Henderson County around ...
Black Lives and Whitened Stories
An extensive new look at the lives of African Americans who worked at Rock Hill/Connemara and the White families who ...
