Aug 9, 2022
Flat Rock After Slavery
Following Emancipation, members of the Flat Rock community had to navigate the rise of Jim Crow and deal with the harsh presence of segregation in daily life. Some left and...
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Jul 26, 2022
Skills and Inventions in the Flat Rock Community
Life in the rural South was not easy for members of the Flat Rock community, especially during Jim Crow. In this video, listen to board members and staff of the...
Jun 30, 2022
Bruce Street Oral Histories: Allene Harper
As part of ongoing efforts to preserve the history of the Bruce Street School, DeKalb County’s first Black public school, we have worked with community members to record a series...
Jun 23, 2022
Bruce Street School Juneteenth Event Recap
The Bruce Street School Juneteenth webinar: The Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance and Martin Rickles Studio recently hosted a virtual community meeting on ongoing efforts to reactivate the Bruce...
Jun 3, 2022
Geology and Culture with the DeKalb Beloved Naturalist Program
By Sally Sears, Co-Founder of the DeKalb Beloved Naturalist Program “If these rocks could talk…” we might better understand our natural world. That was a lesson for the founding class...
Mar 16, 2022
DeKalb Beloved Naturalist Program Begins
On a quiet Saturday in February, a group of people crowded into the classroom at the Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Center. These students are a part of a bold new environmental...
Mar 8, 2022
Third Bruce Street School Community Engagement Session Complete
Participants recently took part in the third Bruce Street School community engagement session, designed to gather community feedback about potential future uses and activation of the Bruce Street...
Jul 21, 2021
Historic Bruce Street School Preservation Moving Forward
Martin Rickles Studio, an Atlanta-based interdisciplinary design studio, has been selected for the conceptual design for the preservation and activation of the Bruce Street School ruins, the remnants...
Jan 11, 2021
Preserving History: Construction Begins at the Lyon Farm
Photo by Kelly Jordan. Historic preservation efforts continue at the Lyon Farm, one of the oldest homesteads in DeKalb County and a part of the history of the African-American Flat...
Dec 1, 2020
Bruce Street Surveys: Almost There!
Will you help us shape the future of the Bruce Street School? Built through a grassroots community effort, the Bruce Street School was the first African-American public school in DeKalb County....
Nov 18, 2020
Have you completed the Bruce Street Survey?
Built through a grassroots community effort, the Bruce Street School was the first African-American public school in DeKalb County. While the stone school (also known as “the old school...
Nov 12, 2020
Leave No Trace at Arabia Mountain
DeKalb County Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs and the Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance have launched a “Leave No Trace” campaign to urge visitors to the Davidson-Arabia Mountain...