Forsyth County
26 places on the trail: 25 highway markers, 1 battlefields and state sites.
People of Forsyth County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
- J-41BETHABARAFirst settlement by Moravians in North Carolina, 1753; known also as Old Town. Church erected 1788. Town is 1 mile N.E.
- J-106SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGEMoravian settlers in 1772 founded a school for girls, now a liberal arts college & academy. Campus is 1/2 mi. N.E.
- J-110WACHOVIA TRACTOn Dec. 27, 1752, survey for Moravian settlement began near here. Bishop August Spangenberg led frontier expedition that...
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
- J-65FRATERNITY CHURCH OF THE BRETHRENOldest German Baptist (Dunker) congregation in North Carolina. Est. ca. 1775 near Muddy Creek, one mile south.
- J-66McKNIGHT'S MEETING HOUSEEst. by Methodists ca. 1782. Annual Conferences held here in 1789, 1790, & 1791 by Bishop Asbury. Site was 400 yards N.W...
- J-51NAZARETH CHURCHLutheran. Begun about 1778 by German settlers. Formerly called "Old Dutch Meeting House." Present building, 1878.
- J-9SHALLOW FORDColonial route across Yadkin River. Scene of Tory defeat by Whigs, 1780. Crossing used in 1781 by army of Lord Cornwalli...
The young state, 1790-1860
- J-71NISSEN WAGON WORKSBegun in 1834 by John Nissen. By 1919, fifty wagons a day were produced. Sold in 1925. Was located here.
- J-23PLANK ROADThe western terminus of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road, 129 miles in length, longest in North Carolina, built 1...
- J-50WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYFounded 1834 in Wake County by N.C. Baptist Convention. Moved to Winston-Salem in 1956.
- J-97WASHINGTON'S SOUTHERN TOURPresident Washington spent night of May 31, 1791, at the tavern in Salem. 1/2 mile north.
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
The New South, 1878-1929
- J-70FRIES MANUFACTURING AND POWER CO.First producer of hydroelectric power in North Carolina, April 20, 1898. Located 3 mi. S.W. at early ferry crossing.
- J-105N.C. FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBSVolunteer service group promoted suffrage, education, and other social, cultural causes. Founded 1902 one-half mi. SE.
- J-72R. J. REYNOLDS 1850-1918Founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. In 1875 built his first factory in Winston. Grave 1 block E.
- J-54REYNOLDA HOUSEBuilt 1917 by Katharine, R.J. Reynolds ½ mi. N. on 1,000-acre model farm. Now museum of American art. Farm was donated t...
- J-38ROBERT B. GLENN 1854-1920Governor, 1905-1909; legislator. Champion of Prohibition and of railroad regulation. Home stood 1 block W.
- J-101SIMON G. ATKINS 1863-1934Founded Slater Academy, now Winston-Salem State Univ.; president, 1892-1904, 1913-34. Religious and community leader. Li...
- J-31WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITYEstablished for Negroes as Slater Industrial Academy, 1892. State supported since 1895; University since 1969.
- J-52WM. CYRUS BRIGGS 1861-1918Invented in 1898 one of the first successful automatic cigarette machines. Workshop was 3 blocks east.
Modern North Carolina, 1930 on
- J-83NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTSEst. 1963; opened 1965. First state-supported school for performing arts in U.S. A campus of The University of North Car...
- J-86ROBERT M. HANES 1890-1959Banker. Economic adviser to post-World War II Europe. A founder of the Research Triangle Park. Home was 50 yds. W.
- J-115TOBACCO UNIONISMStrike by leaf workers, mostly black & female, June 17, 1943, 1/2 mile W., led to seven years of labor & civil rights ac...