Groundwater Guardian Community
The Tillery community was one of only eight communities in North America participating in the Groundwater Guardian Program in 1994. This pilot program is a community education and recognition program of the Groundwater Foundation, a private, non-profit educational organization based in Lincoln, Nebraska. It is designed to empower local citizens and communities to take voluntary steps toward protecting their groundwater. Groundwater is an especially relevant issue in Tillery because of the large number of corporate hog factories and individual shallow wells serving the population.
Remembering Tillery
"Remembering Tillery...A New Deal Resettlement Historic Community Guide" is a historic community guide put together by the Concerned Citizens of Tillery History Committee in 1995. It is a collection of a selected number of historic sites of interest to current and former Tillery residents and to Scholars of African-American and Southern history. The tour sites were chosen by the Remembering Tillery Historic Committee for their important contribution to the development of the Tillery Community over the past 100 years. While this Guide is not comprehensive, it is an important first step toward remembering, reclaiming and preserving the diverse histories of this community.
History House
The History House Museum stands on former plantation land worked by generations of Blacks slaves. After the Civil War, Black family farmers as sharecroppers lived and labored on the former plantation lands of Tillery. Approximately sixty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation in the 1930's and 1940's, President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted his New Deal Resettlement Program, a program offering Black families the opportunity to purchase land. Today the History House Museum, a former Resettlement home owned by Louis & Glendora Thomas, stands on Black owned land and houses a community historical exhibit.
Southeast Halifax Environmental Awakening
Southeast Halifax Environmental Reawakening (SHER) is a coalition between CCT, the Halifax County Health Department and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. SHER looks to outreach to other communities who are faced with issues or injustices similar to those found in Tillery. The catalyst for SHER's creation was an Environmental Justice: Partnerships for Communication grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
