Rural Initiative Project, Inc.

Rural Initiative Project, Inc. (RIPI), established May 10, 1996, is a Non-Profit organization formed for the purpose of preserving historic properties, providing affordable housing, and revitalizing economically impoverished communities in the Southeastern United States. By working with local leaders in planning, creation, and development of projects, RIPI strives to improve our locales.

“The will of the people is the best law.”




This website is dedicated to informing our readers of the various projects RIPI is involved with, along with dashes of local history.



These are pictures of the Richmond Hill Law School. Home of North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Richmond Mumford Pearson and his second wife, Mary McDowell Bynum, from approximately 1859 until his death in 1878.

To view the larger images, just click on one of the pictures.