Fat Baby’s Café (formerly known as The Resettlement Café) is located on Tillery Resettlement Farm #35. This property was reclaimed by the Concerned Citizens of Tillery (CCT) in 1992 in order that the Tillery community would have a place for a quick sandwich and perhaps some forgotten items at the grocery store.  Except for a few months, there has been an operating cafe in the building since the fall of 1994. There were several community and business leaders on hand to welcome these new business operators into the Tillery community and to Halifax County. CCT hopes that Fat Baby's Cafe will help keep the story of the Tillery Resettlement Farms Project alive and draw visitors to the café, as well as to the Remembering Tillery History House.

For additional information on Fat Baby’s Café, contact Rachel or Pam at (252) 826-4076.  For information on the Remembering Tillery History Project and the Tillery Resettlement Farms, contact the Concerned Citizens of Tillery (CCT) at 252-826-3017.

Several dignitaries and well wishers were on hand on Thursday, July 1 for the grand opening and ribbon cutting of Fat Baby’s Café at the Resettlement in Tillery, NC. Shown here are as follows: (back row, l-r) Sydney Salerno, Sylvan Heights Intern; Ali Lubbock, Sylvan Heights Operations Manager; Tony Brown, Halifax County Manager; Brent Lubbock, Sylvan Heights Director of Marketing and Membership Development; Doris Davis, Area Wide Health Committee; unidentified; Josephine Smith; Thurman Watson; Pamela Smith; Marilyn Harris, Halifax County Black Caucus; (front row, l-r) James Pierce, Halifax County Commissioners Chairman; John Bass; Rachel Bass, Fat Baby’s Café owner; Pamela Bass, Fat Baby’s Café owner; Stacie Bass; Nicholas Bass; Allen Purser, Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce President; and Gary Grant; Concerned Citizens of Tillery.