02/23/2026
Black Bartow Events proudly highlights the Official Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center, a cornerstone of African American education and heritage in Bartow County.
Built in 1923 in the Cassville community, Noble Hill was the first standardized Rosenwald School in the Bartow County School System and one of the first in northwest Georgia. Rosenwald schools were made possible through a unique partnership between local Black communities, the Bartow County Board of Education, and the Rosenwald Fund, a program dedicated to expanding educational opportunities for Black children during segregation.
For over three decades, Noble Hill served as a place of learning for students in grades 1–7, educating generations of Black children at a time when access to quality public education was limited by racial inequity.
After the school closed in 1955 when county schools for Black children were consolidated, the building stood vacant for many years. In the 1980s, alumni and community leaders, including educator Dr. Susie Wheeler, led a successful effort to preserve the school. Their work transformed the historic building into the Noble Hill Wheeler Memorial Center, a museum and cultural heritage center that showcases African American life, history, and education in Bartow County from the early 1900s to the present.
Today, this restored Rosenwald school remains a powerful reminder of the strength, resilience, and determination of the Black community in Bartow County, a place where education helped open doors to opportunity and where history is preserved for future generations to learn from and be inspired by.
