1900 to 1950
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Photo Credits: Roscoe Dausuel, 1919
Courtesy of the Baker Barber Collection
1900 to 1950
Between 1900 and 1970 local African-Americans owned businesses such as cafes, laundries, sweet shops, beauty shops, guest houses, a taxi service, a mortuary and a paving company.
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Brickton Colored School
Brickton Colored School served African American students in the Fletcher area from the time it was built in 1930 until ...
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Stanford Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church
Stanford Chapel was organized in the early 1900’s under the leadership of Rev. Hemphill, Rev. C. C. Martin, and Elder Mays ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Union Grove Baptist Church
The Union Grove Baptist Church of Hendersonville, N.C., was organized as a congregation in 1909, first meeting in the homes ...
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Greater New Zion Baptist Church
In 1927 a group of people founded a church in the Brickton area of Henderson County and named it Zion ...
Mud Creek Missionary Baptist Association Brief History
From a small acorn a mighty oak can grow.” With these words, Mrs. Gertrude B. Forney sums up the place ...
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Mud Creek Missionary Baptist Association
Mud Creek Missionary Baptist Association A fourteen-acre assembly ground with eleven buildings in East Flat Rock provided a training and ...
James Fisher at Connemara
James Fisher worked at Connemara as a valet and chauffeur for the Smyth family in the early 1900's. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/black-history.htm ...