🥣 Fourth Annual Soup Supper to Benefit Historic Mt. Olive Cemetery on Feb. 24
Madison ROOTS, which grew out of the Madison County Racial Justice Coalition, will host its Fourth Annual Black History Month Fundraiser to support the maintenance and beautification the the Long Ridge Community’s Historic Mount Olive Cemetery on February 24.
We’re grateful to our community and local businesses who generously supported the 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 events that raised more than $10,000 to support the historic Mt. Olive Cemetery.
Want to Contribute Food to the Fundraiser?
If you’d like to support the fundraiser with the contribution of a dessert, please let Mary O. know. Mars Hill United Methodist Church
About Mt. Olive Cemetery in Mars Hill
Began in 1936, the historic Mount Olive Cemetery was purchased from the County School Board and is adjacent to the Historic Anderson-Rosenwald School.
Among those buried there are the decedents of Mr. Joseph Anderson, who was one of the founders of Mars Hill University and Ms. Viola King Barnette, whose letter to the State School Board Superintendent was responsible for ensuring that all children across North Carolina could receive a public secondary education.
