AU Newsmakers: Auburn students work to save a piece of history

Students in Auburn Universitys 2008-09 class of the Design-Build masters program have recently graduated and are going their separate ways. However, their collective work outside the classroom while at Auburn will leave an indelible mark on one Macon County community.

The 12 students in the program, under the guidance of D. K. Ruth, director of the College of Architecture, Design and Constructions Design-Build program, and Anthony Tindill, visiting assistant professor in the McWhorter School of Building Science, dedicated the past year to helping restore the Shiloh-Rosenwald School. Built in the 1920s, the three-room, wood frame building provided a place to educate African-American children in Notasulga and the surrounding area for more than 40 years until federally mandated integration.

http://www.ocm.auburn.edu/newsmakers

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[divv3r]

"I believe that this is a practical word and that I can count only on what I earn; therefore, I believe in work, hard work."

I only wish that great men like George Petrie and Booker T. Washington could see these beauritul young men and women in action, doing wonderful things to this now beautiful building.

[sportsfan002]

That's a terrific project. War Eagle!

[skipplet]

The Auburn Train Station is a piece of history that needs to be saved. Last I saw it, the building looked abandoned with holes in most of the windows.