• Noting a “lack of supervised activities and the absence of a place to facilitate those activities,” the Pigeon Community Development Club presented the Haywood County Board of Commissioners with a proposal to create a “unified community club” at…
J.W. Hood (James Walker)-(1831-1918) Educator, Bishop, and author of Sketch of the Early History of the African American Episcopal Zion Church (1914). Hood resided in North Carolina from 1863 until his death in 1918, and was a prominent figure in…
Ella Mae Bridges Rogers used her love for the Lord to impact her community. She was an usher and a major organizer for getting her church, Mount Zion AME Zion Church in Cullowhee, North Carolina, involved in Mountain Heritage Day at Western Carolina…
It is a black and white photo of four gentlemen singing around a microphone. They are all wearing suits and ties with white handkerchiefs in their left breast pockets.