1900 to 1950
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.
Brickton Colored School
Brickton Colored School served African American students in the Fletcher area from the time it was built in 1930 until ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
