Help us bring health and prosperity to our town by adding your brick to the walkway. Or maybe you want a brick in memory of your parents or grandparents. Verizon has donated to us their lot at the corner of Main and Buffalo to construct a garden with trees, flowers, benches and possibly a bandstand as well as our brick "walkway to renewal".  This will be a "green space" in the middle of town for everyone to enjoy. Proceeds from the sale of engraved bricks will be used to fund future RRC projects in the ongoing effort to bring economic development to the area, revitalize the town of Rowlesburg, and preserve its history.

Shirley Cook Hartley is our fundraising chairperson who has done a fantastic job and if you need more information, you may email Shirley.

Please click on "Buy a Brick" to download the application form.

Main Street Garden at the corner of Main and Buffalo

Member artist, Norma Blair Dowling, drew this sketch as the basic plan for the garden. The walkways will be paved with plain and engraved bricks, as will the low benches and low circular walls in the center. An alternative plan would feature a gazebo in the center area. To date, a dogwood tree was planted at a ground-breaking ceremony on Memorial Day/2004, a bench has been donated in memory of Joe Peaslee, 5 more bences are ordered for spring and 108 bricks have been ordered. Greater Downtown Rowlesburg did some landscaping with butterfly bushes, black-eyed susans, and pots of annuals to make the corner more attractive.

Rowlesburg High School graduate (class of 1976), Dallas D. Wolfe III, has graciously agreed to lay the bricks and consult on design. Other volunteer services are happily accepted.