The Shiloh Community Association (SCA) announces Shine on Shiloh: A Walking Tour, a collaboration between the SCA, UNCA Masters of Public Health Students and MAHEC.

November 19, 2022 will kick-off of the first in a series of Shine on Shiloh events, starting with Shine on Shiloh: A Walking Tour, to benefit the future Shiloh Resource Center! All are welcome to join the inaugural tour at 11am on Saturday 11/19 at the Shiloh A.M.E. Zion Church, at 95 Shiloh Road.

This is a self-guided walk, run, mosey or drive to nine points of interest around the Shiloh Community where you can learn more about the historic Asheville neighborhood.

The Shiloh Community, known to some as New Shiloh, is a historic African American community. As Shiloh resident and historian Anita Carter-White notes,

“New Shiloh evolved and prospered around three cornerstones: its churches, its school, and its people. According to oral and church histories, old Shiloh was located north of the Biltmore Estate. When George Vanderbilt bought the land for his mountain home in the late 1880’s he moved the entire community, including Shiloh Church and the church cemetery to its current location.” (http://www.shilohnc.org/)

This year, the Shiloh Community Association (SCA) celebrates its 22nd anniversary.

The funds raised from the self-guided tour will go towards the Shiloh Community Association Resource Center (SCRC). The SCRC will house start-up businesses, classroom and community meeting space, an event center for weddings and family reunion gatherings, a commercial kitchen, offices and additional resources for the neighborhood. The SCRC has been a vision and goal of the residents of Shiloh since 2002. The Shiloh 2025 Plan was written over a nine year period and adopted by the City Council on September the 14th 2010.

Tour-takers can donate to the SCA: https://www.gofundme.com/f/shiloh-community-association-resource-center or send a donation to Shiloh Community Association, P.O.Box 5253 Asheville 28813-5253. or call Mrs. Norma Baynes@ 828-277-9654