Day 1: Celebrating Small Farms Week, Recognizing Our Past Agriculture Innovators

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We are celebrating Small Farms Week this week. To kick off the week, we would like to recognize some folks from Chatham County’s past. The citizens were promised a Farm Agent and a Home Demonstration Agent to serve the African American citizens in Chatham County. What they were not promised was office space to house the new Farm Agent and Home Demonstration Agent. The African American citizens saw the obstacle of not having office space for their agents as a challenge. These citizens came together, raised the funds, and built their own Agriculture building that served the African American community. According to the Chatham Record, “this was the first known African American Agricultural Building ever erected in any county of the United States from solicited funds.”
This building served as office space for Farm Agent, Joseph A. Turner and Lovie M. Smith, Home Demonstration Agent, both from N.C. A&T State University. Their offices were located upstairs while a doctor’s office was created downstairs that served the African American citizens.
The new building was dedicated in memory of Neil Alexander Bailey, the first African American County agent employed in North Carolina.