This Community Learning Center (63D Hansen Road) will partner with the Community Engaged Learning program and the Department of Community Service of Brandeis University
Salem Campground, founded in 1828, is site to the oldest continuous religious camp meeting in the nation. Many African-Americans have worked at Salem since the time of slavery to the present day.
From c. 1939-1994, the Kitty Cottage Museum was located at this site. The slave quarters in which Miss Kitty, an enslaved woman, had resided, was moved from its original site in Oxford, Georgia in 1939, and returned to Oxford in 1994.
Site of the three major cotton mills and the number one employer of African-Americans in the 1950's & 1960's. The mill being owned by the Bibb Mfg. Co. of Macon, Ga. also furnished housing, and schooling for it's employees. The colored housing, being locate across the railroads track on Hwy. 81 toward Covington City limits, in the colored quarters called Rose Hill. The school for coloreds was also located there and served as a Church on Sundays. Porterdale now, some twenty years after the Bibb Mfg. left, Porterdale is now in the revitalization mode, with the some parts mill being transform into condominiums, restaurants & shops, which also includes an Art Gallery that is owned by a African-American. This complex has several African-Americans businesses that are located on the main street in Porterdale. There are several areas still under construction as of July 2007.
Original site of the home of James O. Andrew, Bishop of the M.E. Church, South. Bishop Andrew's ownership of slaves was the proximate cause of the great schism of the Methodist Church in 1844.
Original site of Kitty's Cottage, slave quarters in which resided Miss Kitty (c. 1822-c. 1855), an enslaved woman owned by Bishop J.O. Andrew of the Methodist Church. The cottage was moved in 1939 to Salem campground, and then in 1994 was moved back to Oxford, to a site behind Old Church, just down the hill from its original location.
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