Release date: Feb. 3, 2003

Contact: Frances Weyand, Director of Media Relations, 770-423-6203 or fweyand@kennesaw.edu
Writer: Karen Kennedy, 770-423-6203 or kkennedy@kennesaw.edu

KSU students to document history of Summer Hill

Students in Kennesaw State University's public history program are partnering with former and current residents of the Summer Hill community and the Etowah Area Consolidated Housing Authority to document the history of Summer Hill. Summer Hill is a historically African-American neighborhood developed outside downtown Cartersville in the late 1800s.

As a part of this two to three year project, students will document artifacts, collect images, record oral histories and develop "memory maps" of the neighborhood. Upon completion of the project, materials developed and collected will be archived at the Summer Hill Community Center and at Kennesaw State University's Center for Regional History and Culture.

Students are asking the community for help in locating people that resided or owned businesses in Summer Hill prior to 1990. For more information about this project or to become involved, contact Dr. LeeAnn Lands, KSU assistant professor of history, at 770-499-3437.

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