Founder and editor of COUNTY LINE AMERICA, covering the people, communities, businesses, challenges, and opportunities shaping rural and small-town America.
Aug 12, 2026
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Carroll County’s Black cemeteries hold names, family lines, churches, and communities that may survive nowhere else. Protecting them begins by recognizing what they are: part of the county’s public history.
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The Rosenwald story in Carroll County is often told as a story of philanthropy. The fuller story is about Black parents, neighbors, students, and educators who paid into a segregated public system—and then raised more to build what that system failed to provide.
Across Carroll County, Black schools once stood at the center of rural communities. The buildings are mostly gone, some records were thrown away, and much of what remains survives because former students refused to let their history disappear.
A personal introduction to a publication about rural race, history, and the stories between us
