Forsyth County, North Carolina
Ardmore Historic District
Arista Cotton Mill Complex
Atkins High School (former)
Atkins, S. G., House
Bahnson, Agnew Hunter, House
Bethabara Historic District
Bethabara Moravian Church
Bethania Historic District
Bethania Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Black, George, House and Brickyard
Blair, William Allen, House
Bland, Joseph Franklin, House
Brickenstein-Leinbach House
Brown, W.C., Apartment Building
Centerville Historic District
Chatham Manufacturing Company-Western Electric Company
Chatham, Thurmond and Lucy, House
Clayton Family Farm
Conrad-Starbuck House
Craver Apartment Building
Crews, Thomas A., House
Downtown North Historic District
Dyer, James B. and Diana M., HOuse
Evergreen Farm
First Baptist Church
Flynt House
Forsyth County Courthouse
Gilmer Building
Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church
Graylyn
Hanes Hosiery Mill-Ivy Avenue Plant
Hanes, P.H., Knitting Company
Hanes, Robert M., House
Hill, J. S., House
Hoehns (Hanes), Philip and Johanna, House
Holly Avenue Historic District
Hoots Milling Company Roller Mill
Hylehurst
Indera Mills
Jones, Dr. Beverly, House
Kapp, John Henry, Farm
Kernersville Depot
Korner's Folly
Lloyd Presbyterian Church
Lowe, Cicero Francis, House
Ludlow, Col. Jacob Lott, House
Mars Hill Baptist Church
McKaughan, Isaac Harrison, House
Memorial Industrial School
Middleton House
Nissen Building
Nissen Building (Boundary Increase)
Nissen, S.J., Building
North Cherry Street Historic District
North Cherry Street Historic District
North Cherry Street Historic District (Boundary Decrease and Additional Documentation)
O'Hanlon Building
Oak Crest Historic District
Oak Grove School
Old German Baptist Brethern Church
Old Richmond Schoolhouse and Gymnasium
Old Salem Historic District
Paisley J. W., House
Pepper Building
Poindexter, H. D., Houses
Reynolda Historic District
Reynolds Building
Reynolds, R.J., Tobacco Company Buildings 2-1 and 2-2
Reynolds, Richard J., High School and Richard J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium
Reynoldstown Historic District
Roberts-Justice House
Robinson, A., Building
Rogers, James Mitchell, House
Rural Hall Depot
Salem Tavern
Salem Town Hall
Schaub, John Jacob, House
Shamrock Mills
Shell Service Station
Shultz, Christian Thomas, House
Single Brothers' House
Smith, W. F., and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building
Snyder, John Wesley, House
Sosnik-Morris-Early Commercial Block
South Main Street Historic District
South Trade Street Houses
Speas, William Henry and Sarah Hauser, House
Spruce Street YMCA
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
St. Philip's Moravian Church
Stauber, Samuel B., Farm
Stuart Motor Company
Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District
Union Station
Wachovia Building
Waller House
Washington Park Historc District
Washovia Bank and Trust Company Building
Waughtown-Belview Historic District
West End Historic District
West Salem Historic District
Winston-Salem City Hall
Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Freight Warehouse and Office
Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District
Womble, Bunyan S. and Edith W., House
Zevely House
(Former) Atkins High School
1753 Great Philadelphia Wagon Road
1792 Road Between Bethabara and Germanton
26th N.C. Regimental Band
African-American West End Area
Alpha Chapel
Ancient Poplar Tree
Apothecary Shop 1763
B.F. Huntley Furniture Co.
Bake Oven 1753
Bastion 1756
Belews Street Neighborhood
Bell House
Bethabara
Bethabara
Bethabara Fort 1756-63
Bethabara Tavern 1757
Bethania
Bethania Freedman's Community
Boulders' House Lighting Project
Brookstown United Methodist Church
Builders' House
Calf Barn 1765
Calvin H. Wiley School
Carver High School
Cedar Grove School
Charles L. Spaugh House
City Hall
Colored Baptist Orphanage Home
Commemorating the Original Krispy Kreme Doughnut Shop
Community and Medical Gardens
Community Garden 1759
Concord United Methodist Church
Congregation Kitchen 1766
Congregation Store 1759 & 1764
Congregation Store Addition after 1766
Consolidation of Winston and Salem
Daniel Boone Trail
Daniel Boone Trail
Daniel Boone Trail
Davy House (1835)
Depot Street Graded School Site
Distiller's House 1803
Doctor's Laboratory 1759
Downtown North Historic District
Dwelling House/Cow House 1754
Earline King
East Winston Library
Easton Neighborhood
Emancipation in Salem
Family House 1758
First Baptist Church
First Official 4th of July Celebration in the United States
First Sit-In Victory In North Carolina
First Village
Five Row at Reynolda
Flonnie T. Anderson
Flour Bin 1758
Former Dividing Line Between Winston and Salem
Fourteenth Street Elementary School
Fourteenth Street School
Fraternity Church of the Brethren
Friedberg Church
Fries Manufacturing and Power Co.
Garden on the Triebel Lot
Gemeinhaus
Gemeinhaus 1756
Gemeinhaus 1788
George Black House and Brickyard
George Henry Black Memorial
George Mock House
George Washington Stopped Here
Great Philadelphia Wagon Road
Great Wagon Road
Hans Wagner Cabin 1752
Happy Hill
Happy Hill Overlook
Herbst Shop on Lot 33 (1829)
Herman Buttner House
Historic Bethabara Park 1753
Historic Hanestown
Historic Happy Hill Path
Historic Scaffold System
Home Moravian Church
Hotel Zinzendorf
Jones Grocery Store
Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hospital
Kerner Tannery
Krause-Butner Pottery Shop
Last Burials in the Parish Graveyard
Lewis C. Laugenour House
Lewis Hege (1840-1918)
Lewisville Baptist Church
Lewisville Roller Mill
Lewisville United Methodist Church
Lloyd Presbyterian Church
Locksmith and Gunsmith Shop 1759
Loesch House Site (1789)
Log House ca. 1816
Lord Cornwallis
Lowman Pauling & The "5" Royales
Maynard Field
McKnight's Meeting House
Medical Gardens 1761
Memorial Industrial School
Memorial Marker 1806
Methodist Church Parsonage
Mill-Wright's House 1762
N.C. Federation of Women's Clubs
Nazareth Church
Nell Davis Britton
New Bethabara Tavern 1775
New Bethel Baptist Church
New Hope AME Zion Church
New Tavern Well 1755
Nissen Building
Nissen Wagon Works
North Carolina School of the Arts
Oak Grove School
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Ogburn Station
Old Salem Historic District
Our Confederate Dead
O'Hanlon's Office Building
Palisade Fort
Pfafftown
Phi Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
Philip and Johanna Hoehns (Hanes) House
Plank Road
Polo Fields At Reynolda
Pottery Dependency 1756
Pottery Kilns on Lot 38
Pottery Shop 1755
Pottery Shop Addition between 1763-1766
POW-MIA Memorial
Pythian Hall
R. J. Reynolds
R. J. Reynolds High School and Auditorium
R.J.R. Labor Strikes
Railroad Street Mural
Reich-Hege House Site (1830-1922)
Reich-Hege Lot (1830)
Reynolda Historic District
Reynolda House
Reynoldstown Historic District
Richard Joshua Reynolds
Robert B. Glenn
Robert M. Hanes
Rosemary Harris
Rt. Rev. Edw. Rondthaler, D.D.
Safe Bus Company
Salem Academy and College
Salem and the "Farmer's Railroad"
Salem Concert Hall
Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company and Arista Cotton Mill
Salem Moravian Graveyard
Salem Square
Salem Town Hall
Salem Waterworks
Samuel and Sarah Stauber Farm
Schmidt Blacksmith Shop (1768)
Second House Site (1767)
Shallow Ford
Shamrock Mills
Shiloh Lutheran Church
Silver Hill
Simon G. Atkins
Simon Green Atkins House
Single Brothers' Diaconie
Site of Dobson's Tavern
Site of First House Erected in Winston
Site of Historic Beeson's Crossroad Trading Post
Site of Lewisville Academy
Site of Sunny Acres
Sleeping Hall 1754
Smithy and Christ Pottery 1759
Smith's House 1762
Squire's Grave
Stoneman's Raid
Stoneman's Raid
Store House, Shed and Lodging For Strangers 1754
Street Grade
Stuart Motor Company
Summerhouse 1759
Symbol of Service
Tailor's Shop 1764
Tailor's Shop Addition and Well after 1766
Tavern Smokehouse
Tavern Well 1763
The African American Graveyard
The Brothers House 1755
The Brothers' Spring and The African School
The Children's Home
The Dyer's and Potter's House 1782
The Forsyth County Men
The Historic Brookstown Inn
The Home of Simon G. Atkins
The Honorable Willie Jones of Halifax
The Landscape South of St. Philips
The Mickey Coffee Pot
The Plank Road Comes to Salem
The Pond
The Salem Campus
The "Hattie Butner"
Thomas J. Wilson
Tobacco Unionism
Vogler-Reynolds House
Vorsteher's House 1758
Wachovia Settlement
Wachovia Tract
Wake Forest University
Wash House 1754
Washington's Southern Tour
Well 1763
Well 1807
West Salem Historic District
William Johnson
William Linville
Winston Mutual Life Insurance Building
Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther Party
Winston-Salem Rotary Club
Winston-Salem State University
Wm. Cyrus Briggs
Wolff-Moser House
Wright Court House Site 1771-1774 / Richmond Court House Site 1774-1789
"Battle Cross"
"Log House"
The county was officially established in 1849 and named after Colonel Benjamin Forsyth, a War of 1812 hero. During the 19th century, Forsyth County played a significant role in the tobacco industry. The area's fertile soil and favorable climate made it ideal for growing tobacco, and numerous tobacco factories were established in Winston-Salem, the county's largest city.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Forsyth County was marred by racial tensions and violence. African Americans faced systematic discrimination and were victims of several instances of racial violence, including the notorious 1898 race riot in nearby Wilmington. This violent history had lasting effects on the county's racial dynamics for many years.
From the mid-20th century onwards, Forsyth County experienced significant growth and development. Winston-Salem became an important center for industry, particularly in the fields of tobacco, textiles, and furniture manufacturing. The city also gained recognition for its arts and culture, becoming home to prestigious institutions such as the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
Today, Forsyth County continues to thrive as a vibrant community with a diverse population and a strong economy. While the county has faced its share of challenges, it has also demonstrated resilience and progress in embracing its rich cultural heritage and shaping a bright future for its residents.
Brief timeline of the history of Forsyth County, North Carolina:
- 1849 - Forsyth County was established on January 15th.
- 1851 - The first courthouse was built in the county seat of Winston.
- 1877 - Salem Female Academy, which later became Salem College, was established as the first institution of higher education for women in the state.
- 1913 - City of Winston merged with Salem to form Winston-Salem.
- 1917 - R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company introduced the iconic Camel cigarette.
- 1950s - The city experienced significant growth and industrial development.
- 1980 - Winston-Salem surpassed Greensboro as the largest city in North Carolina.
- 1989 - The city celebrated its bicentennial.
- 2000 - The population of Forsyth County exceeded 300,000.
- 2013 - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center became the largest employer in the county.
This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Forsyth County, North Carolina.