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’A Sense of Place’ update: Cadentown restoration moves to phase 1; city outlines programming and markers
Summary
Mayor’s office and community partners reported progress on the A Sense of Place initiative to preserve and interpret Fayette County’s rural Black hamlets; phase 1 repairs to the Cadentown Rosenwald School are slated to begin in March 2025 with fundraising and marker programs described.
Tiffany Brown, chief opportunity officer in the mayor’s office, told the General Government and Planning Committee on Jan. 14 that the A Sense of Place initiative will stabilize and interpret historic rural Black hamlets in Fayette County, starting with Cadentown.
Brown said the project aims to remember and celebrate the history of the county’s rural Black hamlets by stabilizing buildings, cleaning cemeteries, collecting oral histories and creating exhibits. The city owns the Cadentown property that includes the Cadentown Rosenwald School and the Cadentown Missionary Baptist Church; staff described the school as a wooden one‑story building constructed in 1923.
Phase 1 will focus on repairs to the school’s…
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